Cardiovascular Surgery

What is Cardiovascular Surgery?

Cardiovascular Surgery (cardiovascular surgery) is surgery of the heart and great vessels. Cardiovascular Surgery is usually performed to treat symptoms of cardiovascular diseases, congenital heart diseases or heart valve diseases.

What are Cardiovascular Diseases?

Click to get detailed information about cardiovascular diseases, especially heart attack, coronary artery insufficiency and heart failure, which are the most common cardiovascular diseases in the world and in Turkey.

What are the Treatment Methods for Cardiovascular Diseases?

Our Cardiovascular Surgery Center is a privileged center recognized abroad as a center of excellence that applies open, closed and combined endovascular treatment methods as well as minimally invasive and robotic surgery methods in the treatment of cardiovascular diseases.

For over 30 years, thousands of heart patients of all age groups have been successfully treated surgically at Florence Nightingale Hospitals Cardiovascular Surgery Center, and more than 2000 cardiovascular surgeries are performed each year.

In our Cardiovascular Surgery Center;

• Coronary artery bypass surgery
• Heart valve surgery
• Aortic aneurysm surgery
• With surgery of arterial and venous diseases,
• Surgical treatment of congenital heart diseases is performed.

Our Cardiovascular Surgery Center, which develops a special patient care program for all its patients with its multidisciplinary approach, also successfully treats high-risk cardiac patients.

Our Cardiovascular Surgery Center, which works in close collaboration with the Cardiology Department, also has a strong teamwork with our Children's Heart Health and Surgery Center, as well as our Heart Transplantation and Heart Support Systems Center.

Why Florence Nightingale Centre for Cardiovascular Surgery?

Florence Nightingale Cardiovascular Surgery Center's infection and complication rates are on par with the top 10 hospitals in the United States, and its mortality rate is less than 1%.

Our Cardiovascular Surgery Center; Cleveland Hospital (USA), Methodist Houston (USA),

It collaborates with leading hospitals in cardiovascular health worldwide, such as Columbia Presbyterian New York (USA) and OLV Hospital Aalst (Belgium).

Florence Nightingale Cardiovascular Surgery Center provides training to foreign surgeons in the fields of minimally invasive cardiac surgery and arrhythmia surgery.

Our Cardiovascular Surgery Center has been successfully implementing the minimally invasive cardiac surgery program since 1999.
Our robotic surgery program and arrhythmia surgery program, which were implemented for the first time in Turkey, have been continuing successfully since 2004.

The non-surgical heart valve replacement program (TAVI), which we have been conducting jointly with our Cardiology Department since 2009, enables successful treatment of our patients with high surgical risk.

The perfect harmony and coordination between our cardiovascular surgery, cardiology, anesthesia and intensive care physicians, nurses and support staff are among the priorities preferred by our patients.

Numerous national and international publications by our Cardiovascular Surgery physicians confirm the outstanding success of the Florence Nightingale Cardiovascular Surgery Center.

Our Cardiovascular Surgery Center has been accepting pediatric cardiac patients from abroad, especially from Iraq and Azerbaijan, since 2011 and has been successfully performing cardiac surgeries.