Mechnikov Hospital. Hospital Mechnikov - Dnepropetrovsk. Mechnikov Hospital - St. Petersburg

The regional hospital. Mechnikov is the leading clinic in Dnepropetrovsk. In its walls people are treated since 1798. Today there are 40 specialized departments with a total capacity of 1175 people. On the basis of the hospital, extensive scientific work is carried out, advanced methods of treatment are introduced.

Statistics

The Mechnikov Railway Hospital is the largest medical institution in Dnepropetrovsk and the region. Over the past year, 257,000 people received qualified counseling, more than 36,000 stayed at the hospital, 15,000 operations were performed here, 80% of which were complex.

The clinic employs over 2,200 employees, including:

• Doctors - 450;
• Junior medical staff - 465 people;
• Junior medical specialists - 775.

Department of Allergology

Hospital Mechnikov can be proud of the department of allergology, designed for 30 beds. It is headed by a doctor of the highest category, Ph.D. Margitich Sergey Vasilyevich. The department employs doctors of the highest category, who constantly improve their qualifications in leading clinics and institutes for the improvement of doctors in the cities of Kiev, Donetsk, Lviv. The department is working together with the Department of Hospital Therapy No. 1 and the occupational pathology of the Dnepropetrovsk Medical Academy.

Diagnosis and treatment of diseases of various severity and complications of allergic patients with the following diagnoses are carried out here: bronchial asthma, pollinosis, chronic allergic rhinitis, chronic recurrent urticaria, dermatitis, drug, food, insect allergy, quincke angioedema, anaphylactic shock and others .

For 13 years of work, the doctors of the department, together with the staff of the department, published 48 articles in printed publications of Ukraine and Europe, conducted 18 thematic speeches on television, introduced 37 modern methods for diagnosing and treating allergic diseases. Doctors of the department are participants of medical forums.

Cardiology department

Hospital Mechnikov (Dnepropetrovsk) is equipped with the necessary equipment, allowing you to conduct complex operations. The following techniques have been implemented:

• Endovascular diagnosis of ischemic heart disease and treatment;
• Stenting: simple stents and stents with a coating.

A system of rendering assistance to patients with multifocal atherosclerosis was developed and introduced. Here, lesions of the coronary arteries in the brain, lower limb vessels and abdominal aorta along with the departments of vascular neurosurgery and vascular surgery are treated.

Diagnosis of arterial hypertension is carried out in the possible directions:

• Endocrinological pathologies as causes of arterial hypertension.
• Defeat of the kidneys of inflammatory etiology, anomalies of renal vessels (renovascular hypertension) of congenital and acquired character.
• Determination of the degree of defeat of "target organs" in joint-stock companies using modern diagnostic methods: radioisotope renography, computed tomography, ultrasound and ultrasound of kidney vessels, kidney biopsy.

Department of Endocrinology

It was created to provide highly specialized inpatient care for patients with endocrine pathologies (primarily pathologies of the thyroid gland) and diabetes mellitus. There are four doctors working in the department: Department Ekaterina Yuryevna Malyar (regional endocrinologist) and doctors: Chukmasova NA, Malashenko S.L. And Anisimova AS

The Mechnikov Hospital initiated the creation of a school of self-control. The primary goal of the school's functioning is to teach patients the basics of self-control, diet and insulin injection techniques.

Currently in the hospital work:

• Therapeutic and surgical endocrine departments.
• Consultants-endocrinologists on the basis of the regional consultative polyclinic and paid clinic.
• Cabinet "diabetic foot" on the basis of the polyclinic department.
• Cabinet of fine needle aspiration biopsy of thyroid nodules.
• Radiological department (hormonal studies and diagnostic and treatment of radiation iodine).

In addition to the main methods of treatment of endocrine diseases, a glucose monitoring (CGM) technique is conducted on the basis of the department and insulin pumps are installed.

Mechnikov Hospital: Department of Pulmonology

The department's work is carried out jointly with the Department of Therapy and Occupational Pathology of the Dnepropetrovsk Medical Academy (headed by Prof. Kuriat Alexander Viktorovich). Diagnostics, treatment of nonspecific diseases of bronchopulmonary system are carried out here.

Doctors use all X-ray diagnostic methods, magnetic resonance tomography, diagnostic and therapeutic fibrobronchoscopy, bronchography, ultrasound examination of the pleural cavity, ECHO cardiograph. Also:

• Patients with an unidentified etiology of pleurisy undergo thoracoscopy and pleural biopsy.
• For the diagnosis of the body scintigraphy, angiopulmonography is performed.
• In pulmonary pathology, nebulizer therapy for obstructive syndrome is widely used.
• Patients with pulmonary failure undergo non-invasive ventilation with an oxygen concentrator. The blood is monitored with an oxygen pulse-oximeter.
• Treatment of bronchial asthma is conducted according to the recommendations of GINA. Treatment of COPD - according to the recommendations of GOLD.

Department of Endocrine Surgery

The Mechnikov hospital is equipped with modern surgical equipment. In the department for 30 beds diagnosis and treatment of the pathology of endocrine glands is carried out according to Ukrainian and world standards, all protocols and standards are implemented according to the recommendations of WHO and the European and American associations. Annually more than 500 operations are performed in the pathology of the thyroid gland. The surgeons of the department have mastered the technique of upper sternotomy with the retinal tumors of the thyroid gland. The percentage of complications is only 0.74% - a record for Europe.

Since 2009, the techniques of surgery of adrenal tumors have been mastered and are being conducted. In recent years, 24 adrenalectomies have been performed, 20 of them - according to laparoscopic techniques, including cancerous and hormone-mediated tumors of the adrenal glands.

Every year the number of patients treated with minimally invasive methods is increased (which allowed to avoid open surgery in 90% of cases). Only in the Dnepropetrovsk clinic in Ukraine the program of combined treatment of advanced thyroid cancer has been successfully implemented.

The specialists of the department annually take part in reports at international conferences and congresses. The department has 22 publications, including in international journals, 2 patents of Ukraine for inventions.

Hospital Mechnikov: how to get there

The institution is located in the central part of Dnepropetrovsk, 150 meters from the railway station "Prospect". It is most convenient to get to the hospital by tram number 1, it stops near the clinic (stop "Hospital Mechnikov"). Nearby there are stops "School No. 23" and "Prospekt K. Marx".

Address: Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine. 49005, ul. Oktyabrskaya-14.

Telephones:

• Background hospitals - 380 (56) 713-5115, 380 (562) 47-36-16.
• The reference polyclinic is 380 (562) 46-53-96.
• Personnel service: 380 (56) 373-0968.

The international cooperation

The medical institution actively cooperates with Ukrainian colleagues and foreign partners, among whom the Russian "relative" is the Mechnikov St. Petersburg Hospital (St. Petersburg). Doctors exchange experience, share important information, statistical data. The specialists undergo joint internship, participate in international scientific projects, which helps to implement the most modern and effective methods of treatment.