A life-threatening injury brought Svitlana Zinko to New York City, where she trusted a Moscow-trained surgeon with her vital organs.
she tripped down the stairs and broke her clavicle—an injury that would ultimately lead a painful, life-threatening infection to spread through her body.
After months of mixed diagnoses, MRI tests, and excruciating pain, Zinko’s daughter Liliia—who lives in New York City—finally succeeded in making arrangements for her parents to be relocated to the U.S., in hopes that her mother could find a solution to her dire medical crisis in an American hospital.
Just days after her first appointment at Lenox Hill on Dec. 2, Svitlana was scheduled for a two-part surgery led by Leonard, with the goals of clearing as much of the infection in her back as possible, taking pressure off of her spinal cord, and stabilizing her spine. Leonard, however, needed help to access the damaged parts of Svitlana’s spine in the safest way possible.Svitlana’s son-in-law, Vitali Tryhubenko“Dr.
Both surgeries were performed flawlessly, to the gratitude of Svitlana, who has since regained her mobility and is now living her life pain-free thanks to efforts of Leonard and Dolgopolov. “I really appreciate all the doctors in New York that helped me, because the situation in Ukraine is still severe and complicated,” she said.For Dolgopolov, who worked in Moscow during the Russian invasion of Afghanistan, the experience of treating Svitlana was a reminder that “history goes in circles.
For Leonard, however, Svitlana’s story offers some glimmer of hope. “When I was in the operating room, it struck me how remarkable it was,” he said. “There’s this terrible war going on between Russia and Ukraine, but in that operating room there are individuals from those countries who are working to cure a life-threatening infection. We had Dr. Dolgopolov, we had a Ukrainian surgical tech there. I’m very lucky to work with such individuals at the hospital.
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