Education and the open exchange of experience remain among the most powerful ways to improve patient care. Wishing Prof. Igor Konstantinov and colleagues a successful course in Muscat.
This year in Oman we will focus on aortic valve repair and Ebstein anomaly in patients of all ages. This will be a grand event for cardiologists and heart surgeons.
Working in a regional hospital, I see how geography affects access to specialized care, making equity, regionalization, and AI highly relevant.
Congratulations to Prof. Igor Konstantinov and colleagues on this publication.
In the Era of Artificial Intelligence, a network connecting charity groups, government jurisdictions, referring physicians and patients from all over the world may become feasible. This network may also dramatically improve reginalization of care.
@konstantinov_ie Congratulations, Igor, on this important publication. Equity of access to congenital heart care is one of the defining challenges of our time, and this is a valuable contribution to that discussion.
A technically challenging nephroureteral catheter exchange. A simple bailout technique helped avoid forceful traction and facilitated safe catheter exchange.
Full case on LinkedIn.
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An excellent opportunity to learn from leaders in the field of congenital cardiac surgery. Particularly looking forward to Prof. Igor Konstantinovโs presentation.
Do not miss an exciting symposium on Ebstein anomaly this Saturday, 6 June! It will be of great interest to neonatologist, fetal echocardiographers, cardiologists, surgeons, and all intensive care specialists. A link to free online registration is below.
The best net outcome in the end does it. Throughout human history, there was one feature that distinguished all great men from others - failure did not exist for them. Failure was only the reason to learn, re-group, and continue moving forward. All had extraordinary persistence.
The Timurid Renaissance transformed Transoxiana into one of the intellectual centers of the medieval world.
Samarkand became a remarkable center of astronomy, mathematics, architecture, and scholarship along the Silk Road.
One of the quiet privileges of living in New Zealand โ meeting the new day among the first on the planet.
And every sunrise here feels extraordinary.
A wonderful match between an exceptional congenital cardiac surgeon and one of the worldโs great academic medical centers. Very happy for Igor Konstantinov.
One of the most elegant principles in medicine and engineering alike: the closer we stay to natural anatomy and physiology, the better the long-term result often becomes.
Pavlovโs โReflex of Freedomโ is fascinating even today.
He viewed freedom not as an abstract political idea, but as a natural human instinct โ a fundamental drive to resist imposed limitations.
A beautiful reminder that medicine and literature have always shared the same purpose โ understanding the human condition through knowledge, imagination, and compassion.
Reading is a joyful escape that nourishes the soul.
I read this line on the facade of the Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine:
There is no Frigate like a Book
To take us Lands away
Nor any Coursers like a Page
Of prancing Poetry.
Emily Dickinson
Beautiful light, beautiful city โ and a well-deserved new chapter.
Congratulations on your appointment, Igor! Wishing you inspiration and success at Mayo Clinic and in Rochester.
Medicine is shaped not only by innovation, but by tradition and lived experience.
Labore et scientia, arte et humanitate is a reflection on my formative years at the Military Medical Academy.