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Cardiology and cardiac surgery clinics in Turkey
Every year more and more patients choose Turkish clinics for diagnostics of heart diseases and cardiac surgery. The methods of treatment and equipment are at the level of Americans and European clinics, and the affordable price of medical services makes Turkey one of the best countries for medical tourism.
Benefits of treatment in Turkey
- Patients choose Turkish hospitals for the following reasons:
- Doctors know how to use robotic surgery to treat cardiovascular disease and have extensive experience with Da Vinci robots. The likelihood of complications after robotic interventions is minimal compared to abdominal surgery;
- Turkish clinics accept 80+ elderly people and newborns;
- Surgery is performed on a beating heart;
- Multidisciplinary approach: cooperation of doctors from different specialties, which allows an accurate diagnosis.
MedTour patients recommend clinics for the treatment of cardiological and cardiosurgical in Turkey:
Doctors for the treatment of cardiology and cardiac surgery in Turkey
Frequently Asked Questions
Clinics in Turkey offer a well-planned trip with a guide and a consultant, including:
- Detailed treatment plan;
- Russian speaking translator;
- Transfer;
- Simple payment system without additional payments;
- Accommodation in a comfortable environment that matches the patient’s condition;
- Consultations even after returning to the home country.
Most often, patients choose the cardiovascular department of Turkish clinics for the following procedures:
- Heart block — a disruption of the heartbeat, which is associated with an irregular heartbeat and the danger of a complete blockade;
- Rheumatic heart disease — inflammation of the connective tissues of the structures of the heart;
- Heart failure — a circulatory disorder that can be fatal;
- Myocarditis — inflammation of the muscle layer of the tissue;
- Aortic aneurysm is an expansion of the aortic wall that can rupture.
- Send a message to a MedTour employee and he will find the best Turkish clinic for you.
- Order additional services (if necessary): a personal translator into your native language and the organization of a transfer.
- The MedTour team will find accommodation for you at the level of a 5-star hotel and will offer you the best price option.
- Upon arrival in Turkey, you will be met by an employee of the clinic and an interpreter, who will take you to the clinic and will be in touch with you throughout your treatment in Turkey.
- After the full course of treatment, you will be transferred to the airport.
Contact the coordinating physician of MedTour and he will find the best clinic in Turkey.
- Cardiologist’s consultation — from $120;
- Consultation with a cardiovascular surgeon — from $120;
- Consultation with an interventional radiologist — from $120;
- Coronary angiography — from $700;
- Preoperative heart diagnostics — from $500;
- Ultrasound of the heart — from $100;
- Holter monitoring — from $50;
- ECG — from $15;
- Echocardiography — from $20.
- Coronary artery bypass grafting — from $6 000;
- Intravenous radiofrequency ablation (RFA of veins) — from $1 000;
- Aortic valve replacement — from $12 000;
- Heart valve replacement — from $10 000;
- Coronary stenting — from $2 800;
- Surgery for ventricular septal defect — from $8 000;
- Radiofrequency ablation — from $3 500;
- Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) — from $28 500.
Couldn’t you find what you’re interested in? Leave a request and the coordinating physician will clarify the cost of the operation in Turkey for you!
The price of procedures depends on:
- Clinic pricing policy;
- Surgeon;
- The method of the required operation;
- Cost of materials;
- The dates of the planned trip (if this is an urgent operation, the doctor gives priority to such patients and accepts them out of turn).
Do you want to get detailed information? Leave a message on the MedTour platform and the coordinating physician will help you with choosing a clinic and organizing a trip to Turkey!
The best clinics in Turkey for heart surgery
Medical Park Fatih. This Turkish hospital has an international JCI certificate and over 500 qualified doctors. The cardiac surgery department performs over a thousand open-heart surgeries annually. The clinic’s doctors specialize in the following operations:
- Cardiac catheterization;
- Coronary angioplasty;
- Valve replacement;
- Installation of a stent;
- Pacemaker implantation.
University Hospital Medipol. This clinic is JCI accredited and certified by the Turkish Medical Association. The cardiology department accepts people of all age groups: over 80 years old and newborns.
The department has modern diagnostic methods:
- EFR test (treadmill);
- Transthoracic echocardiography (ECHO);
- Stress echocardiography;
- Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE);
- 3-dimensional echocardiography (transesophageal) test;
- Holter monitoring;
- ECG using an event recorder (EventRecorder);
- Table tilt test.
Doctors of Medipol perform the following operations:
- Implantation of new generation pacemakers;
- Reconstruction of valves and bypass grafting using the Da Vinci robotic system;
- Aortic valve replacement with TAVI technology;
- Balloon angioplasty;
- OPCAB coronary artery bypass grafting;
- Coronary stenting.
Hospital Liv. Over 50 000 foreign patients choose this clinic every year. Specialists of Liv specializes in the treatment of the following diseases:
- Rhythm pathology;
- Acute and chronic heart failure;
- Cardiac ischemia;
- Cardiomyopathy;
- Aortic aneurysm;
- Myocardial infarction.
Liv’s specialists perform the following operations:
- Installation of an 8-year-old permanent pacemaker;
- Right and left heart catheterization;
- Septal ablation in hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy;
- Percutaneous closure of atrial and ventricular septal defects;
- TAVI (transcatheter aortic valve implantation);
- Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD);
- Catheter ablation.
Liv’s cardiology department has a record low rate of complications after pacemaker insertion — 0%.
The most famous Turkish cardiologists and cardiac surgeons
Mustafa Güden is a cardiovascular surgeon specializing in endoscopic and robotic surgery. The doctor has over 30 years of experience, during which he has performed over 9 500 cardiac procedures.
Hüseyin Okutan is a cardiovascular surgeon at Medical Park Hospital with over 25 years of experience. The professor conducts cardiac procedures in newborns and adults. The doctor performs the following operations:
- Cardiac Bypass Surgery (CABG);
- Coronary artery and ventricular defect surgery;
- Radiofrequency ablation;
- Valve replacement — mechanical and tissue valve.
Hakan Aksoy — interventional cardiologist with over 11 years of experience. The doctor deals with the treatment of cardiomyopathy and peripheral arterial diseases.
Gürsel Ateş is a cardiovascular surgeon with 15 years of experience specializing in diseases of the coronary arteries and peripheral vessels, varicose veins, aneurysms and pediatric cardiovascular surgery.
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