Assoc. Prof. received an invitation from South Africa. Dr. İsmail Ateş and his team were the first team to apply the Mitraclip method, a non-surgical heart valve treatment, in Capetown.
Assoc. Prof. is the practitioner and educator of Mitraclip and Triclip methods developed by Abbot, which are among the non-surgical heart valve treatment methods, in Turkey, the Middle East, Central Asia, Eastern Europe and Africa. Dr. İsmail Ateş and his team were appreciated for their success with a series of operations they carried out in South Africa. Turkish team, in the world, Prof. Dr. It was the first team to initiate Mitraclip cases at Groote Schuur Hospital and Tygerberg Hospital in South Africa, the hospital where the first heart transplant was performed by Christiaan Barnard.
Giving information about their study, Cardiology Specialist Assoc. Dr. İsmail Ateş, “Prof. Dr. It was very proud to be the team that performed the first Mitraclip case at Groote Schuur Hospital in South Africa, the hospital where the first heart transplant was performed by Christiaan Barnard. We also performed the procedure at Tygerberg Hospital, one of the important hospitals in Capetown. We performed Mitraclip procedure on 5 patients during our 3-4 days stay. “We received an invitation again at the end of November.” Said.
“They were very impressed.”
Dr. stated that they were very impressed by the procedures performed by their South African colleagues and the experience of Turkish doctors. İsmail Ateş said, “Me and my colleague Prof. Dr. We performed the operations together with Gökhan Kahveci. He takes part in the imaging part of the operation and I take part in the application part. There were very difficult cases for a startup, but we handled them all without any problems and they were very satisfied. They were impressed by both our approach and experience. “They invited us again around the end of November.” Said.
The doctor who performs the most Mitraclip cases in Turkey…
Dr. is the physician who has reached the highest number of cases in Turkey since the introduction of the Mitraclip method in the world and in Turkey. İsmail Ateş said, “We had 80 cases in 2022. We have approximately 100 cases in 2023, we think this number will increase to 125 by the end of the year. This shows that our experience in this field has increased. We can perform such operations more safely. When we look at it from the perspective of overseas patients, this is a great advantage for health tourism in Turkey. Because these operations can be performed more conveniently in Turkey compared to surrounding countries. Our hospitals are highly equipped, and our team is very experienced in their field. It is still not implemented in countries such as Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan and Iraq. We started it in a center in Kazakhstan, and we started it again in Iran. We just launched in South Africa. We also did a case in Tunisia in the North African part. In these regions, studies on health tourism can be carried out in this area and a potential can be opened. This will also provide an advantage for the country's economy.” He spoke as follows.
