National Medical Research Center named after V.A.Almazov

The V.A.Almazov National Medical Research Center is one of the leading medical institutions in the country providing specialized and high-tech medical care to the population.

The structure of the Center's clinic includes:

• the main clinical complex (743 beds),
• consultative and diagnostic center,
• medical and rehabilitation complex (301 beds),
• RNHI them. prof. A. L. Polenova (138 beds),
• specialized perinatal center (169 beds),
• children's medical and rehabilitation complex, (168 beds),
• blood transfusion station.

Every year, more than 40,000 people receive timely medical care at the clinic, and more than 185,000 visit the consultative and diagnostic center.

The uniqueness of the Center lies in the harmonious combination of fundamental and applied research in various fields with the provision of multidisciplinary specialized, including high-tech, medical care to the population and continuous interdisciplinary training of scientific and medical personnel.

The Center has created comfortable conditions for the treatment and rehabilitation of patients. The clinic has spacious three-, two- and one-bed wards that correspond to the level of the world's leading clinics. They are equipped with direct oxygen supply, the latest resuscitation devices, comfortable functional beds, and individual lighting devices.

Diagnostic equipment

Multi-slice computed tomography

The Center has six modern multislice computed tomographs:

• Russia's first new expert-class computer tomograph Somatom Force (2 x 192 slices, Siemens), Somatom Definition (128 slices, Siemens), Somatom, Definition AS (128 slices, Siemens).
• Two Ingenuity Elite tomographs (128 slices, Philips).
• Ingenuity Elite (128 slices, Philips).

Digital mammography

The Almazov Center has installed a modern digital mammography system of an expert class - Senographe Pristina (General Electric) - a high-tech mammography of the latest generation, providing maximum diagnostic accuracy, which is actively used in leading European clinics.

MRI

The Center has two magnetic resonance imaging machines:

• modern ultra-high-field magnet Magnetom Trio A Tim 3.0 Tesla (Siemens)
• high field Magnetom Espree 1.5 Tesla (Siemens)

Positron emission tomography (PET/CT) and radioisotope diagnostics

Radioisotope diagnostics is a modern method of radiation imaging based on the use of chemical compounds labeled with radionuclides, which has found application in almost all areas of medicine. From anatomical and topographic methods of radiation diagnostics (ultrasound, X-ray computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging), the method of isotope diagnostics differs in the ability to assess the functional state of human organs and tissues, cell metabolism and receptor status.

Laboratory diagnostics

The laboratory has modern equipment from leading world manufacturers. Equipping with automatic analyzers from ABBOTT, Roche, Beckman Coulter, Radiometer, Becton Dickinson and using only manufacturer's reagents allows laboratory diagnostics to be carried out at the highest level.

Functional diagnostics

The Department of Functional Diagnostics of the Clinical and Polyclinic Complex of the Center is equipped with modern medical equipment, the research is carried out by highly qualified, experienced specialists.

X-ray diagnostics

X-ray departments are equipped with modern digital equipment, which allows performing X-ray diagnostics at the highest level. Digital radiography significantly reduces the radiation dose compared to non-digital counterparts, which is of great importance when examining children.

Endoscopic diagnostics

Endoscopic examination takes the leading place in the diagnosis of the state of the gastrointestinal tract. The highest information content that distinguishes the endoscopic method from other types of research is direct examination with the eye, and not the assessment of indirect signs (as, for example, in an X-ray examination).

Types of medical care

High-tech medical care

• abdominal surgery
• obstetrics and gynecology
• IVF
• bariatric surgery
• hematology
• neurosurgery
• neonatology
• oncohematology
• oncology
• rheumatology
• cardiovascular surgery
• thoracic surgery
• endovascular occlusion of vascular malformations in the lungs
• videothoscopy
• chest sympathectomy
• pediatric neonatal surgery
• traumatology and orthopedics
• heart, bone marrow and heart-lung complex transplantation
• endocrinology
• ophthalmology
• urology
• maxillofacial Surgery
• pediatrics

Medical care in a 24-hour hospital

• cardiology
• neurology
• rheumatology
• hematology
• pediatrics
• obstetrics and gynecology
• pathology of newborns
• surgery
• traumatology and orthopedics
• therapy
• endocrinology
• physiotherapy
• reflexology
• physiotherapy

Outpatient medical care

• obstetrics and gynecology
• hematology
• cardiology
• endocrinology
• neurology
• otolaryngology
• ophthalmology
• rheumatology
• gastroenterology
• pulmonology
• pediatrics (general)
• surgery (general)
• urology
• nephrology
• dermatology
• cardiovascular surgery
• neurosurgery

Instrumental diagnostics

• multislice computed tomography
• magnetic resonance imaging
• digital mammography
• densitometry
• fibrogastroscopy
• X-ray diagnostics
• stress echography
• ultrasound diagnostics
• ultrasound diagnostics of the heart and blood vessels
• pacemaker programming

Laboratory diagnostics

• biochemical
• clinical
• hormonal
• immunological

Consultative and diagnostic center

Thanks to the highly qualified personnel of the Consultative and Diagnostic Center and the unique modern equipment, it is possible to quickly and accurately diagnose various diseases on an outpatient basis.

The Consultative and Diagnostic Center (CDC) has everything necessary for diagnostics and highly qualified treatment, there is a department for day care of patients (day hospital).

The CDC is designed for 360 visits in 2 shifts and operates on Saturdays.

In 2013, the Outpatient Surgery Center was opened. It carries out consultative reception of cardiologists and doctors of other specialties, diagnostic units work: the department of functional diagnostics, the endoscopic department, the department of radioisotope diagnostics, the X-ray room and others. The concentration and wide range of diagnostic equipment allows for an integrated approach to diagnostics.

The Perinatal Center has a consultative and diagnostic department for women, an endocrinological gynecology center, and a department of assisted reproductive technologies (ART, IVF).

Main directions of activity

• Provision of highly qualified cardiological advice to all patients who apply to the CDC in the direction of medical and prophylactic institutions;
• Diagnostic examination of patients with ischemic heart disease, heart defects, cardiac arrhythmias to determine further treatment tactics. X-ray endovascular diagnostics, surgical treatment, implantation of PEX, for operations or therapeutic endovascular procedures on peripheral arteries, veins, abdominal aorta and its branches, renal arteries in renovascular hypertension;
• Examination and treatment of patients with congenital and acquired heart defects;
• Examination with pacemakers implanted at the Center;
• Clarification of the diagnosis in patients with unclear and complex diseases of the cardiovascular system and the decision of the question of further treatment tactics;
• Postoperative rehabilitation of patients operated on at the Center;
• Dynamic observation and consultation of patients who underwent surgical treatment with a complicated course of the postoperative period (relapses of angina pectoris, dysfunction of prostheses, heart valves, etc.).

Perinatal center

On November 1, 2010, the perinatal center began its work. The Perinatal Center of the V.A.Almazov National Medical Research Center is equipped with the most modern equipment. All types of high-tech medical care are provided to citizens of the Russian Federation free of charge at the expense of
federal budget.

The perinatal center of the Almazov Center operates in accordance with the principles of the World Health Organization's program "The hospital smiles at the child."

The main focus of the perinatal center is the provision of specialized obstetric-gynecological and neonatological care using modern medical technologies.

• Improvement of the reproductive health of women with a burdened obstetric and gynecological history, extragenital pathology.
• Surgical correction of congenital malformations of the fetus and newborn.
• Diagnostics and treatment of newborns with perinatal pathology.
• Introduction into practice of modern diagnostic and therapeutic technologies of new organizational forms of work, means of prevention, rehabilitation.
• Improving the quality of life of children with perinatal pathology through the use of modern high-tech methods of diagnosis and treatment.
• Providing obstetric care to women at high risk of pregnancy and childbirth.

Central Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory

The laboratory has modern equipment from leading world manufacturers. Equipping with automatic analyzers from ABBOTT, Roche, Beckman Coulter, Radiometer, Becton Dickinson and using only manufacturer's reagents allows laboratory diagnostics to be carried out at the highest level.

The entire fleet of automatic and semi-automatic analyzers is combined into a single computer information system (LabTrak), which allows you to control the entire process of test execution at any stage. A bi-directional data exchange between medical and laboratory information systems has been configured, which allows the doctor to receive research data in the shortest possible time. Due to the multilevel quality control of studies, the possibility of errors in the results is completely excluded.

A modern clinical diagnostic laboratory focused on providing qualified assistance to each patient who applies, equipped with modern high-tech equipment of the latest generation from the world's leading manufacturers.

To ensure the highest quality of laboratory research, we annually participate in the Russian program of external quality assessment FSVOK and have confirming certificates.

Diagnostics is carried out by qualified specialists with a good reputation and significant work experience, which allows you to get fast, reliable and reliable results in all areas of laboratory tests that help clinicians in making a diagnosis and allow you to develop optimal medical tactics for the prevention and treatment of diseases.

All laboratory processes are fully automated, including a significant part of preanalytical labeling and sample handling.

The vast majority of research is done within one working day.

The laboratory service is constantly developing new research and diagnostic methods, which today are the property of individual scientific laboratories and specialized institutes.

A single electronic database allows you to quickly, at any time, view all the analyzes performed for the patient for the entire period of his observation at the Center during preventive medical examinations or dynamic monitoring of changes in health status in chronic diseases, including for self-control purposes.

The service has a wide range of laboratory tests based on advanced methods that meet international standards, the international quality control system RIQAS (Rendox).

Regional Vascular Center

The Regional Vascular Center is a functional association of several departments and services designed to provide emergency care to patients with acute coronary syndrome (myocardial infarction and unstable angina pectoris) and stroke (hemorrhagic and ischemic).

Only in 2019 at the Regional Vascular Center of the N.N. VA Almazov, specialized and high-tech medical care was provided to 457 patients with a diagnosis of acute cerebrovascular accident (ACVI).

The structure of clinical forms of ACVA in 2019:

• transient ischemic attacks - 14;
• hemorrhagic strokes - 49;
• ischemic strokes - 391.

When providing emergency care to patients with stroke, high-tech methods of treatment are used (thrombolysis, thromboextraction, combined reperfusion, surgical neurosurgical interventions).

The Almazov Center provides specialized, including high-tech, medical care to patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) around the clock, 7 days a week. Hospitalization of patients with ACS is carried out by ambulance and emergency teams.

The vast majority of patients with ACS are provided with high-tech medical care in the scope of coronary angiography, percutaneous coronary angioplasty with stenting, and emergency coronary artery bypass grafting. In 2019, the clinic treated 1,326 patients with ACS.