WHO recognizes the achievements of Czech cardiologists

The World Health Organization (WHO) has just awarded the "Dr Lee Long-wook Memorial Prize" to the Czech Heart Association (CKS).

Held annually, the award is given to individuals and organizations that make outstanding contributions to protecting public health.

Cardiovascular experts from the Czech Republic are pioneers in the application of angioplasty in the treatment of heart attacks in the world. The application of this method has helped to reduce the rate of heart attack deaths in the Czech Republic to 5%.

The angioplasty method was discovered and tested for the first time in 1977 by the Swiss cardiologist Andreas Gryuntsig. Right from the 90s of the last century, the Czech Republic cardiologists began to study the work. Application of this method. And in 2002, CKS was the first organization in the world to publish experimental methods that determined that myocardial infarction should be treated with angioplasty. This method is being widely used all over the world.

Mr. Petr Widimsky, Chairman of the project "Stent for life" affirmed that the Czech cardiologists are the initiators of this initiative across Europe. This project is still in place and is being spread to other continents with the goal of scaling coronary angioplasty to reduce mortality from myocardial infarction.

The Czech Heart Association - founded in 1929, is the second oldest cardiovascular research association in the European region and the third in the world.