Minimally Invasive Repair of Pectus Carinatum
Professor Erkan Yıldırım is a European-Board certified thoracic surgeon and fully licensed by the Turkish Medical Council. He is specialized in minimally invasive surgical repair of chest wall deformities and recognized nationally and internationally for his surgical technical excellence. He can perform advanced surgical techniques for both pectus excavatum and pectus carinatum (Nuss & Abramson’s) procedures very effectively and efficiently to ensure the best results to our patients. Besides, he has two formerly accepted patents related to pectus bars. He has 100% satisfactory results from the patients he has treated with Nuss and Abramson’s techniques. His another major interests are surgery for lung cancer, esophageal cancer, chest wall tumors, and mediastinal tumors. He performs majorly MIS (Uniportal VATS) procedures and he can perform bronchoscopy, esophagoscopy, and mediastinoscopy very efficiently. No matter what type of surgery you may require, you can be confident in the abilities of our surgeon. Our doctor has had 30 years of experience and practice in all aspects of his field. He has achieved a surgical fellowship in the lung transplantation program in Toronto and involved in 89 recipient procedures. He has been in Kyoto University for the live donor-related lung transplantation.