Dogukan Aktas

About doctor Dogukan Aktas

Doğukan Aktaş is a pediatric cardiologist with extensive experience. He treats the following diseases:

• acyanotic congenital heart defects (ASD, VSD, PDA, pulmonary artery stenosis, aortic stenosis);
• cyanotic congenital malformations (tetralogy of Fallot, Eisenmenger’s disease);
• acquired heart defects (infective endocarditis, acute rheumatic fever, Kawasaki disease, myopericarditis, postoperative problems, cardiomyopathies, etc.)
• heart murmurs (systolic, diastolic);
• heart tumors (rhabdomyoma, myxoma, fibroma, teratoma);
• arrhythmias (supraventricular tachycardia, ventricular tachycardia, long QT syndrome, Brugada syndrome, arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia, short QT interval syndrome, sinus bradycardia, sick sinus syndrome, postoperative blocks).

Dr. Aktas also performs diagnostic and therapeutic cardiac catheterization in children, ablative therapy for arrhythmia, monitoring and revision of pacemakers.

Professional experience

• Pediatrician at Zeynep Kamil Children’s Training and Research Hospital;
• Pediatrician at Bozkir State Hospital of the Ministry of Health of Turkey, Konya;
• Pediatrician at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Sami Ulus Training and Research Hospital;
• Pediatric cardiologist at Ankara Pediatric, Hematology, Oncology Training and Research Hospital;
• Pediatric cardiologist at the Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Istanbul Medipol University;
• Pediatric cardiologist at the Hamidiye Etfal Training and Research Hospital;
• Pediatric cardiologist at Florence Nightingale Hospital, Istanbul.

Doctor’s specialty

The main areas of practical and scientific activity of Dr. Aktas are:

• congenital heart defects;
• acquired heart defects in children;
• cardiac arrhythmias in children.