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Gazi University Hospital International Health Office

Contact Info

Emniyet, Mevlana Blv. No:29, 06560 Yenimahalle/Ankara, Turkey

00908508404545

info@gaziuniversityhospital.com

Gazi University Hospital

Prof. Dr. Abdullah İrfan Taştepe

Thoracic Surgery

 1963-1968: Primary School Education at Kadirli Göztaşı Village, Primary School 

1968-1971: Secondary School Education at Antakya Kurtuluş Secondary School, free boarding 

1971–1974: High School Education at Antakya High School, finished fourth in the free boarding High School. 

1974–1980: Istanbul University Cerrahpaşa Medical Faculty benefited from TÜBİTAK scholarship during his education. He finished the faculty in third place. 

1980-1985: Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Specialization Subject: Comparison of the “Standard and Monostrut” models of the Björk-Shiley artificial heart valve and patients who underwent valve replacement in terms of chronic intravascular hemolysis. 

1986-1987: Military Service at GATA Haydarpaşa Training Hospital 

Compulsory Service: Eight months in Kayseri State Hospital and continued at Atatürk Chest Diseases and Thoracic Surgery Center. 

Areas of Expertise

LUNGS 

  • Lung cancer surgeries
  • Carcinoid Tumor Surgeries
  • Metastatic lung disease surgeries
  • Bronchiectasis, Tuberculosis, Hydatid Cyst surgeries
  • Volume reduction lung resections
  • Bulectomy due to pneumothorax vs.

MEDIASTEN 

  • Mediastinal Mass Surgeries
  • Thymectomy (Closed thymectomy, Miyasthenia Gravis surgery)
  • Diagnostic interventions

TRAKEA 

  • Trachea surgeries
  • Foreign body removal
  • Stent, burning, windpipe widening
PLEURA 

  • Pulmonary biopsies
  • Mesothelioma surgeries
  • Medical thoracoscopy (pleural and fluid biopsy with local anesthesia)

CHEST WALL 

  • Chest wall surgeries
  • Thoracic Outlet Syndrome surgery
  • Lung abscess surgery
  • Chest collapse (shoemaker chest) and dislocation surgeries (Ravitch)

DIAPHRAGM SURGERY 

CLOSED HAND SWEATING SURGERY (ETS) 

LUNG PILLOW SURGERY 

THORACOSCOPIC PROCEDURES (ENDOSCOPIC OPERATIONS) 

  • VATS Lobectomy, bilobectomy, wedge resections
  • VATS Thymectomy, mediastinal mass resections
  • VATS pleural biopsy, pleurectomy / decortication, bullectomy
  • VATS lymph node biopsies, lung biopsies
  • VATS diaphragm plication, hernia repair

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