Prof. Dr. Rıza Türköz

Specialties

• Adult Cardiovascular Surgery
• Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgery

Foreign Languages

• English

Hospital Affiliations

• Acıbadem Bakırköy Hospital

Patient Ages Seen

• Infant, child, adolescent
• Adult

Congenital heart disease

• Coarctation of the aorta
• Atrial and ventricular septal defects (ASD, VSD)
• Atrioventricular canal defects
• Transposition of the great arteries (TGA)
• Congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries (cTGA)
• Double-outlet right ventricles (DORV)
• Ebstein anomaly
• Hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS)
• Interrupted aortic arch (IAA)
• Coronary artery anomalies
• Congenital anomalies of the mitral valve
• Patent ductus arteriosus (PDA)
• Pulmonary atresia
• Anomalous pulmonary venous connection
• Left ventricular outflow tract obstruction: Aortic valve stenosis
• Right ventricular outflow tract obstruction: Pulmonary valve stenosis
• Single ventricle
• Tricuspid atresia
• Truncus arteriosus
• Vascular rings

Adult Cardiovascular Diseases

• Coronary artery disease
• Valvular heart disease (mitral, aortic and tricuspid)
• Diseases of the aorta (aneurysms, dissection)
• Pericardial diseases
• Cardiac tumors
• Pulmonary thromboembolic disease
• Obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM)
• Peripheral artery diseases

Special Interests in Congenital Cardiac Surgery

• Valve-sparing tetralogy of Fallot repair
• Jatene arterial switch procedure, Nikaidoh procedure (TGA)
• Bicuspid aortic valve repair and Ross procedure
• Cardiac surgery (VSD, PS, AS) through a minimal incision (4-5 cm)
• Right axillary mini-incision (4-5 cm) approaches for ASD repair
• Reoperation for complex congenital heart disease
• Repair of aortic arch hypoplasia and aortic aneurysm
• Repair of mitral, tricuspid and pulmonary valves
• Operations for complex univentricular anatomy (Glenn, Fontan,  DKS procedure)

Special Interests in Adult Cardiovascular Surgery

• Coronary artery bypass grafting (on-pump, off-pump, on-pump/beating, reoperations)
• Surgical management of congestive heart failure
• Reconstruction of the mitral, aortic and tricuspid valves
• Valve-sparing replacement of the ascending aorta
• Reconstruction of aortoiliac disease

After graduating from the Faculty of Medicine of Ege University, Dr. Türköz completed his cardiovascular surgery specialization at İzmir Atatürk Hospital, and later worked there as a specialist surgeon for three years. Following this, in 1996, he started working as an assistant professor at Inönü University in Malatya, where he was one of the founding members of the newly established adult heart surgery unit. In 2001, he was appointed as the head of the cardiovascular surgery department of Başkent University Hospital in Adana. Under his leadership, within a few years, the hospital has become the main referral center of the Adana, Eastern and South Eastern Anatolian regions for congenital heart disease and aortic surgeries. For example, in 2006, a total of 1360 heart surgeries were performed in the hospital. In 2007, Dr. Türköz was promoted as the head of the cardiovascular surgery department of the new Istanbul Başkent Hospital. In a short period, the department has become a center where most of the complex congenital cardiovascular surgeries are performed. In 2013, Dr. Türköz moved to Hisar Intercontinental Hospital. Between 2013 and 2015, Dr. Türköz performed 473 cardiovascular surgeries on children and 201 heart surgeries on adults. In 2015 he started working at Acıbadem Bakırköy Hospital, where he continues his cardiovascular surgery work on children and adults.