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Popular Articles of Prof. Dr. Tayfun Aybek


What is Atrial Fibrillation and Ablation Treatment?

Tachycardia and chest tightness is generally found when there is arrhythmia. There are both serious arrhythmia and temporary harmless ones. Our heart beats 100.000-150.000 times a day. When 500 or less of these beats are arrhythmia, it means there is no need for a treatment.

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Remote Patient Monitoring Systems, TUBITAK Project of TOBB E...

Prof. Tayfun Aybek, MD -head of the Cardiovascular Surgery Department at TOBB ETU University – conducted the project of Remote Patient Monitoring Systems and the same University supported the Research and Development studies of this project. Remote Patient Monitoring Systems enable patients to follow their vital parameters (tension, EKG, saturation, hemoglobin, arterial blood gases etc.) after a Cardiac Surgery or Heart Attack. Patients may communicate their doctors instantly through the system.

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​Cardiac Auto Transplantation (The procedure of explantation...

A 55 years old patient admitted to our hospital with a size of 25x20 left atrium, a severe mitral valve disease. The symptoms of the disease were pulmonary edema, asthma, low cardiac output, arrhythmia, extreme fatigue and abnormal weight loss. In order to contract the left atrium, a cardiac autotransplantation surgery, the procedure of explantation and reimplantation of the heart was performed on the patient.

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“Closed” Method Aortic Aneurysm Endovascular Stent Treatment...

Endovascular Aortic Surgery is one of the best inventions in Cardiovascular Surgery during recent years. It reduced surgery risks and hospital stay considerably. Before the 2000s, Aortic Surgery was the most severe operation with the highest risk of complications. As technology is developing day by day, now, Aortic Surgeries can be performed with the closed method, easily.

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