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1990
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- Establishment of Na Homolce Hospital
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1992
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- First surgery performed with Leksell Gamma Knife
- First insertion of an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) – the second hospital in Czechoslovakia to perform the procedure
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1994
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- First hospital in the Czech Republic to acquire a neurosurgical navigation system
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1995
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- Acquisition of a MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) machine
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1996
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- First stent-graft repair of abdominal aortic aneurysm
- Installation of an angiography X-ray system and first procedure on coronary arteries
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1997
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- First catheter-based ablation
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1998
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- First endovascular surgery of a cerebral arterial aneurysm
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1999
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- First hospital in post-Communist Europe to open a PET scan facility (positron emission tomography)
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2000
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- First hospital in the Czech Republic to launch three-dimensional mapping of cardiac arrhythmias
- First percutaneous vertebroplasty – treatment of vertebral fractures
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2001
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- First arterial graft transplant
- First hospital in the Czech Republic to implant a spinal cord neurostimulator for the treatment of refractory angina pectoris
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2002
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- Inception of Cardiac Surgery and Vascular Surgery as two separate specialties
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2003
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- Opening of a new Cardiac Surgery Department
- Launch of the first hybrid PET/CT scanner in the Czech Republic
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2004
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- World premiere: Optune (TTF) therapy of a malignant brain tumour
- World premiere: cryoballoon catheter ablation
- Prevention of ischemic cerebrovascular accidents by left atrial appendage occlusion
- Inception of pulmonary and thoracic surgeries
- Opening of an outpatient oncology clinic
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2005
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- First hospital in the Czech Republic to open a centre of robotic surgery
- First robotic surgery in the Czech Republic: bariatric surgery of the stomach
- First hospital in the world to perform vascular robotic surgery
- International accreditation by Joint Commission International (JCI)
- World premiere: laser ablation treatment of atrial fibrillation
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2006
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- Opening of a centre for adult patients with congenital heart disease
- Establishment of a laboratory of molecular diagnostics
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2007
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- Inception of the robotic cardiac surgery programme
- Opening of a complex of three multi-purpose catheterization rooms
- The first hospital in the Czech Republic to introduce electromagnetic navigation into catheter-based treatment of cardiac arrhythmias
- Opening of a new intensive care unit at the Department of Neurosurgery
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2008
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- Successful JCI reaccreditation
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2009
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- Opening of a new complex of neurosurgical operating rooms with preoperative MRI
- First hospital in the Czech Republic to perform robotic surgery of the heart
- World premiere: thoracic sympathetic RFA (radiofrequency ablation) in patients with unmanageable ventricular tachycardia
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2010
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- Acquisition of a new model of Leksell Gamma Knife – Perfexion
- First hospital in the Czech Republic to implant a subcutaneous cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD)
- Officially designated as Comprehensive Cerebrovascular Centre
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2011
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- Successful JCI reaccreditation
- Designated as Centre of Sleep Medicine
- Two new angiographic X-ray machines at the Cardiac Centre
- World premiere: hypertension treatment by ultrasound renal sympathetic denervation
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2012
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- World premiere: implantation of a leadless pacemaker
- First hospital in central Europe to launch bronchial thermoplasty treatment for severe cases of asthma
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2013
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- World premiere: catheter-based cardiac valve surgery
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2014
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- World premiere: hybrid repair of a ventricular aneurysm, combining cardiac surgery and cardiology
- Successful JCI reaccreditation
- World premiere: a new therapeutic method for hypertension – ultrasound elimination of carotid body functions
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2015
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- Officially designated as highest-level Epilepsy Centre
- Opening of a reconstructed, enlarged neurological intensive care unit
- Opening of an inpatient ward at the Department of Rehabilitation and Physical Medicine
- Trans-catheter pulmonary valve replacement
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2016
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- Inception of a hybrid multidisciplinary facility with the new-generation Da Vinci Xi surgical robotic system
- Ultrasound machine at the Department of Neurosurgery
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2017
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- Successful JCI reaccreditation
- New PET/CT scanner
- World leadership: 400th robotic vascular surgery
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| 2018 |
- Opening a new pharmacy
- A new angio-line that can be connected to CT
- World première: implantation of microfilters into carotid arteries to intercept blood clots
obtaining the Diamond status of the Comprehensive Cerebrovascular Centre |
| 2019 |
- Twenty thousand interventions using gamma knife in the Czech Republic – world leadership
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