In our Cardiovascular Surgery Department, all open and closed cardiac surgeries are successfully performed for patients traveling to Turkey to meet their healthcare needs from other countries, especially Europe, Turkic Republics and the Balkans. For a patient presenting to emergency department of our hospital with complaint of chest pain, invasive cardiologic procedures (angiography, angioplasty, stent implantation) and all cardiovascular surgeries are carried out on the same day through coordination of Emergency Medicine, Cardiology, Cardiovascular Surgery, Anesthesiology and Operating Theater personnel.
Services Available in Cardiovascular Surgery Department
- Endovascular Procedures
- Surgery for the Great Arteries
- Complex Coronary and Valve Surgery
- Valve repair
- Peripheral artery surgery
- Venous System Surgery
- Minimally Invasive Aortic and Mitral Valve Surgery
- Congenital Heart Surgery
Heart Surgery with Axillary Incision
“Right anterolateral mini-thoracotomy” implies replacing and repair a heart valve by making a 4- to 5-cm long incision in the armpit without need to any other incision or dividing muscles and bones. The only difference between the anterior approach and the armpit approach is the location of incision. The procedure is a standard heart surgery. For heart valve surgeries carried out through armpit approach, the chest bone is not incised and opened by 26 to 30 cm, as is the case with anterior-approach surgeries.
