Kartvelishvili Anna Yurievna

Candidate of Medical Sciences, highest-category physician

Highest-category cardiologist, Candidate of Medical Sciences.

Physician in the 1st Cardiology Department of Kharkiv Clinical Hospital of Railway Transport No. 1.

Member of the Ukrainian Society of Cardiologists.

Education:

• 1985 — Graduated from Kharkiv Medical Institute;
• 1985-1986 — Internship at the Department of Therapy of the Kharkiv Institute for Advanced Medical Training, based at Clinical Hospital No. 25 in Kharkiv;
• 1991-1993 — Clinical residency at Department of Therapy No. 1 of the Kharkiv Institute for Advanced Medical Training, Clinical Hospital No. 25 in Kharkiv;
• 1998 — awarded the degree of Candidate of Medical Sciences.

Professional development:

• 2001, 2002, 2007 — participated in international seminars under the auspices of the European Society of Cardiology, Kyiv;
• 2001, 2003 — internships at the Vilnius Cardiac Surgery Center (Lithuania);
• 2006-2008 — participation in the National Congresses of Cardiologists of Ukraine.

Has 23 published works.

Professional experience:

• 1986-1991 — therapist at Clinical Hospital No. 25 of the KhTZ Medical Unit, Kharkiv;
• 1993-1998 — head of the Therapeutic Department at Clinical Hospital No. 25 in Kharkiv;
• Since 1998 to the present — cardiologist in the 1st Cardiology Department of Kharkiv Clinical Hospital of Railway Transport No. 1.

Areas of practice:

• comprehensive medical and psychological rehabilitation of patients after acute myocardial infarctions and heart surgery (coronary artery bypass grafting, heart valve surgery), selection of anticoagulants with INR monitoring, assessment of physical activity levels;
• diagnosis and treatment of arterial hypertension of various origins, hypertension, severe resistant forms of renovascular arterial hypertension using tomographic and endovascular technologies;
• treatment of severe forms of heart failure (dilated cardiomyopathy, heart defects, etc.);
• coronary heart disease, endovascular diagnosis and treatment of coronary artery disease (balloon angioplasty, coronary artery stenting);
• comprehensive diagnostics to detect minor and latent forms of cardiac and cardioneurological pathology (check-up), as well as to determine fitness for work involving the safety of train operations and occupational hazards.

Accepts patients at: Kharkiv Clinical Hospital of Railway Transport No. 1 (“Ukrzaliznytsia”).