step, the operation was carried out by the doctor pyotr goncharov , a student and colleague of valery shumakov first in the soviet union, performed a successful heart transplant operation in 1987. that is, to the report, when the patriotic transplantology begins its development, you have some kind of surgeon. it was the first operation. yes, the operation was performed independently for the first time , be proud of the result of your work. i have a wary feeling so far. and we will be enough when you talk to the patient until recently in russia 17 medical centers performed this complicated operation. botkinskaya became 18:00 and 20 minutes. that's how long the transplant took. the doctors replaced the diseased organ with a healthy donor organ. the operation was complicated by the fact that the patient had a subcutaneous defibrillator. his electrodes. were in the cavity of the heart. they were removed along with the diseased organ. all this time , the functions of the heart were performed by a special apparatus. now a fairly standard aorta operation is undergoing coronary bypass grafting, and fo