A former pupil of Novosibirsk hockey club “Siberia” Vladimir Tarasenko, who plays in the NHL for the team “St. Louis Blues”, successfully underwent surgery on his shoulder.
That Vladimir Tarasenko will need surgery on the shoulder, on the eve of the press service of the NHL. Sunday, April 8, 26-year-old striker was injured in the first period of the match with a Denver team “Colorado avalanche”.
“Tarasenko left the ice after a collision with the captain of the “avalanche” Gabriel Lindeskog, at first glance, seemed harmless. Striker came out for the second period of the match in which Blues suffered defeat (2:5) and left out of the Stanley Cup,” he recalled to the NHL.
About the hockey player wrote a few hours ago on his Twitter.
Thank you all for your support in season!the operation was successful,recovery time! / thanks everyone for support during the season,surgery went well,time to recovery!
– Vladimir Tarasenko (@tara9191) 11 APR 2018
According to General Manager of the “St. Louis Blues” Doug Armstrong, restoring the sniper can take from four to six months. “This means that Tarasenko has a chance to recover by the beginning of training camp in September,” – concluded in the press service of the National hockey League.
Vladimir Tarasenko – the pupil of Novosibirsk hockey, he played for “Siberia” in 2008, in early 2012 the player moved to SKA St. Petersburg in the NHL striker was after the season 2011/2012.
In Novosibirsk have saved a young hockey player with a serious heart problem
Hockey player Valentin Alexandrov has undergone successful heart surgery
This week the doctors of Novosibirsk clinic Meshalkina wrote 18-year-old hockey player Valentina Alexandrova, who played for the youth hockey club “Spartak” from Moscow. The young athlete had bouts of tachycardia – it required a complex operation involving the robot.
Until the fall of 2017 Valentines heart Alexandrov didn’t bother. After the game on November 23 in Moscow when Valentin was home, he got really pulse quickened to 140 beats per minute, and remained so for several hours. Alexandrov was rushed by ambulance to a Moscow hospital.
“For me, it was even unclear – felt good on surveys and everything is fine: players of the same survey twice a year. The team I was called the strongest”, – told the correspondent NGS hockey player.
Valentin Aleksandrov came to sports at the age of 11 – he started to play hockey in his hometown of Roslavl of the Smolensk region, and then began to play Chekhov “Vityaz”, and then moved to Spartak, where he was a striker.
After the next match in Moscow, the player was taken away in an ambulance, his pulse quickened to 140 beats
Sports had to stop for a while – the young man was diagnosed as “ventricular tachycardia” and was scheduled for an operation in Moscow. She passed on 5 December.
But soon the tachycardia resumed, and Alexandrov left the hockey club.
“A month and a half everything was back. We parents started to address this issue, how to take it the disease, I’m 18 years old, and with this disease to live a full life won’t.
Found a clinic in Israel – there is no question, it’s a professional, but the problem is – very expensive. They called the price of 33 thousand USD,” – said the athlete.
Doctors will watch him for a few months, and then, if all goes favorably, will be allowed to return to professional sports. Photo Valentine on the day of discharge from the clinic Meshalkina
Family Valentine began looking for hospitals in Russia and in the end chose the Novosibirsk clinic Meshalkina. According to the player, he was offered to do the surgery on a quota of about a year, but his family decided not to wait and decided on the treatment (about 350 thousand) to the Valentine could return to the sport.
As noted, the doctor cardio-vascular surgeon of clinic Meshalkina Alexander Romanov, the first surgery, which was done in Moscow, was not useless.
“They (the doctors in Moscow. – M. M.) has processed a certain area, but it certainly could not hurt the pathological focus, that is why this arrhythmia resumed after some time”, – described the situation the surgeon.
The operation was held in Novosibirsk on April 12 – the doctors used a powerful system-robot Stereotaxis Niobe to find and precisely to influence the focus of the arrhythmia.
“During surgery using this robotic system, we created a 3D reconstruction of the heart chamber, more precisely the left ventricle, where was this arrhythmia. In other words, we with an accuracy of 1 mm in each point of the inner surface of the left ventricle was seen,” – said Alexander Romanov.
During the surgery, the patient was awake under local anesthesia is needed to more accurately get close to the fire, which causes heart rhythm disturbances. The robot enabled the surgeons to find this little point
The system-the robot allow physicians to pinpoint small lesion that provoked arrhythmias
“It was important for us to it is very definitely to work on this point, so as not to damage the main structure that provides a reduction. We found it and performed the exposure to radio frequency energy, respectively, of arrhythmia the patient has stopped on the operating table,” the doctor added.
According to cardiovascular surgeon, long-term prognosis for the patient is very favorable, and gave you to play sports.
The hockey player wants to return to the sport – he doesn’t know whether to get back in Spartak.
“Now just want to go back,” hopes Valentin Alexandrov.
Last week a former pupil of Novosibirsk hockey club “Siberia” Vladimir Tarasenko, who plays in the NHL for the team “St. Louis Blues”, successfully underwent surgery on his shoulder. He was injured in a match with “Colorado avalanche”.