Cardiac surgeon Renat Akchurin has died – he operated on Yeltsin in 1996
Renat Akchurin, an outstanding Russian and Soviet cardiac surgeon and Deputy Director General for Surgery at the Academician Chazov National Medical Research Center of Cardiology, has died at the age of 79.
In 1996, he operated on the first President of the Russian Federation, Boris Yeltsin.
On October 6, Russian cardiac surgeon Renat Akchurin died, RBC reports, citing the Russian Ministry of Health.
Renat Akchurin was a world-renowned authority in the field of cardiovascular surgery, and created such areas of heart and vascular surgery in our country as cardiomicrovascular and hybrid cardiac surgery, the report says.
In November 1996, he performed open-heart surgery on Boris Yeltsin after the politician suffered a heart attack in June of that year.
The operation was successful and Yeltsin's heart began to work immediately.
As the doctor said, Yeltsin’s life expectancy after the operation was considered a good result “from a medical point of view.”
Yeltsin died at the age of 76 in 2007. According to Akchurin, he did not observe his patient before his death, since there were no reasons for seeking medical attention.
Renat Akchurin began his career as a district therapist.
He worked as a surgeon and traumatologist, and in 1984 he began to specialize in cardiac surgery and was trained by the American doctor DeBakey.
In 1985, he was appointed head of the department of cardiovascular surgery at the A. L. Myasnikov Research Institute of Clinical Cardiology.
Since 2009, he was Deputy Director General for Surgery at the Chazov National Medical Research Center of Cardiology.
