Nikolai Amosov was one of the initiators of the widespread introduction into our country surgery for diseases of the lungs, has made a lot of new developments in this problem.
14 Facts About Nikolai Amosov
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Nikolai Amosov's research contributed to improving the treatment of diseases of the lungs.
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In 1961, Nikolai Amosov was awarded Lenin Prize for the work of lung surgery.
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In 1955 he was the first in Ukraine began treatment for heart diseases surgically, in 1958, one was one of the first in the Soviet Union to introduce into the practice the method of artificial blood circulation, Nikolai Amosov was first in the Soviet Union to perform the mitral valve replacement, and in 1965 for the first time in the world he created and introduced into practice the anti-thrombotic heart valves prosthesis.
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Nikolai Amosov elaborated a number of new methods of surgical treatment of heart lesions, the original model of heart-lung machine.
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The clinic established by Nikolai Amosov, produced about 7000 lung resections, more than 95000 operations for heart diseases, including about 36,000 operations with extra-corporeal blood circulation.
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Nikolai Amosov was the first director of the Institute, and since 1988 - Honorary Director of the Institute.
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In 1955, Nikolai Amosov created and headed the first in the USSR Chair of Thoracic Surgery for the postgraduate studies and later the Chair of Anesthesiology.
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Innovative approach, the original views of Nikolai Amosov were widely recognized in our country and abroad.
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Nikolai Amosov believed that the Western society should serve as an ideal for the USSR.
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Nikolai Amosov is the author of more than 400 scientific publications including 19 monographs.
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Nikolai Amosov was a member of the Presidium of the Board of the Ukrainian Society of surgeons and cardiologists, the International Association of surgeons and cardiologists, the International Association of Surgeons and the International Society of Cardiovascular Surgeons, International Society for Medical Cybernetics, Scientific Council on Cybernetics of Ukraine, member of the editorial boards of a number of domestic and foreign journals.
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Nikolai Amosov's scientific work Amosov combined with a great social activity, was a member of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union five times.
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Nikolai Amosov was the recipient of multiple orders including Hero of Socialist Labour title, two Orders of Lenin, the Order of the Patriotic War, two Orders of the Red Star, and Lenin Prize.