Liv İstinye University Hospital is part of the large international medical group Medical Park. The hospital began operating in 2016, combining the impeccable service of Liv Hospital with the academic approach of İstinye University.
The hospital conducts scientific research to improve treatment methods. The 21 floors of the clinic, with an area of 62,500 square metres, accommodate 30 observation rooms, 394 beds, 10 beds for palliative care, 12 operating rooms, and 94 intensive care beds. The hospital also has a helipad for emergency care.
Liv İstinye is a multi-specialty A+ class hospital. All areas of modern medicine are available here, such as organ transplantation, hair transplantation, oncology, neurosurgery, and cardiac surgery. Specialists treat infertility at the IVF Centre and provide aesthetic medicine and obesity surgery services.
The priority of the Liv İstinye University Clinic is the comfort of patients and their families, so doctors provide comprehensive individualised treatment, and the wards offer the amenities of a 5-star hotel.
Liv İstinye is one of the most advanced paediatric centres in the region. The clinic has paediatric departments of haematology, cardiology, neurosurgery, surgery, gastroenterology and immunology.
The hospital has received JCI, ISO 9001 and SKS accreditation certificates, which indicate the high quality of services provided at the clinic.
Liv İstinye Clinic treats one of Turkey's most popular football clubs, Galatasaray.
The comfort and speedy recovery of patients are always top priorities for the medical staff at Liv İstinye Clinic. Patients have access to five-star hotel-style rooms that are easy to move around in, even for people with limited mobility or those recovering from surgery.
Each room at Liv İstinye Clinic has a mobile hospital bed, a nurse call button, a spacious bathroom, an Internet connection, and a TV with local and foreign channels. If desired, patients can order daily newspaper delivery or a personalised diet.
By choosing treatment with MediGlobus, patients get access to additional services:
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Most often, doctors perform transplantation of kidneys, liver, heart, lungs, pancreas, bone marrow, and cornea.
The success rate for kidney transplants is 99%, and for liver transplants it is 93-94%.
In the CIS countries, up to 1,000 transplants are performed each year. At the same time, at the Liv İstinye University Clinic, the total number of kidney transplants performed is over 5,000, and for liver transplants, the number is over 1,000. Due to the high level of professionalism of the doctors, these figures are constantly growing.
Patients require special care after surgery to reduce the burden on the immune system and prevent infection with airborne diseases. For this purpose, HEPA air filters are installed in the wards of the transplant department.
The head of the department is Professor Ayhan Dinçkan. The doctor has been performing organ transplants for over 25 years. He performs about 500 kidney transplants per year. The total number of operations performed is over 5,000.
| Kidney Transplant |
| Donor search within 1 month |
| Kidney biopsy |
| Kidney transplant surgery |
| 1-month inpatient rehabilitation |
| Bone marrow transplant |
| Donor search |
| Bone marrow biopsy |
| Bone marrow transplant surgery |
| 3-month rehabilitation in hospital |
Specialists in the department diagnose and treat cerebrovascular diseases in adults and children. Doctors treat diseases such as:
The doctors cooperate with the departments of neurology, neuroradiology and psychiatry.
The doctors use a non-invasive method of stereotactic radiosurgery to remove brain and spinal cord tumours – the Gamma knife. Treatment with this technique is painless and lasts from 10 minutes to several hours, depending on the pathology. With the help of the Gamma knife technique, surgeons successfully remove more than 85% of tumours. When planning operations on the brain and spinal cord, neurosurgeons use fluorescent neuronavigation technology, which allows them to accurately separate healthy tissue from diseased tissue and avoid postoperative complications.
The Liv İstinye Clinic has a Spine Surgery Centre. There, they perform operations on hernias of the cervical and lumbar spine, spinal canal stenosis, tumours of the spine and spinal cord, and spinal deformities. The innovative AOSpine robotic system is used to perform the surgeries.
The hospital also has an Epilepsy Centre. Specialists in Turkey provide treatment according to American standards, using original, latest-generation anti-epileptic drugs.
This therapy can reduce the number of seizures by 70%. In cases where medication is ineffective, doctors perform surgery.
The team of specialists at Liv İstinye Clinic uses minimally invasive procedures such as multiple subpial transection, which involves making incisions in the brain to prevent the spread of impulses, and microsurgical laser surgery, which removes the epileptogenic focus. Neurosurgeons also perform open surgery.
Lobectomy is the removal of part of the affected lobe of the brain, after which 80% of patients are free of seizures.
Callosotomy is a partial or complete transection of the corpus callosum, which eliminates the transmission of epileptic activity from the affected hemisphere to the healthy one.
In severe cases, hemispherectomy is performed, which is the removal of the hemisphere in which the epileptogenic focus is located.
Specialists of the Cardiac Surgery department at Liv İstinye University Hospital provide comprehensive treatment for all diseases of the cardiovascular system. In cases of heart valve disease, doctors perform reconstruction or replacement of the valves. They use biological valves, which means that patients do not have to take anticoagulants for the rest of their lives.
To treat atrial fibrillation, doctors use cryoablation. During this operation, the surgeon uses extremely low temperatures to destroy the area of tissue that is causing the abnormal heart rhythm. This is a minimally invasive procedure, after which the patient recovers quickly. The modern equipment used at Liv İstinye Clinic allows for a high level of control over the procedure and makes it safer than in less advanced clinics.
Cardiac surgeons remove heart tumours. Most neoplasms are removed using minimally invasive methods, which reduces the likelihood of complications and shortens the postoperative period.
The Liv İstinye team of specialists perform surgeries with and without stopping the heart. Intervention without connection to a heart-lung machine reduces the recovery period.
| Coronary artery bypass surgery |
| Specialist consultation |
| Comprehensive examination |
| Shunt installation on a beating heart |
| Inpatient rehabilitation |
| TAVI heart valve replacement |
| Specialist consultation |
| Comprehensive examination |
| Minimally invasive valve replacement surgery via a puncture in the femoral artery |
| Rehabilitation |
The oncology department at Liv Istinia Clinic has the latest equipment for effective cancer diagnosis and treatment:
An experienced team of specialists treats cancer in children and adults. The doctors have more than ten years of experience, and many of them have trained in hospitals in Western Europe and the United States.
The combination of high-quality technology and professional staff allows them to achieve one of the highest cancer survival rates in the country.
| Procedure | Cost |
| Specialist consultation | from $110 |
| EEG | from $350 |
| MRI | from $450 |
| CT | from $400 |
| PET-CT PSMA | from $2,000 |
| Biopsy | from $1,500 |
| Haemodialysis | from $250 |
| Gamma Knife | from $4,500 |
| Procedure | Cost |
| Valve replacement | from $12,000 |
| Surgical treatment of scoliosis | from $15,000 |
| Prostate removal | from $6,000 |
| Bariatric surgery | from $5,000 |
| Deep brain stimulation (DBS) | from $22,000 |
| Cochlear implant | from $23,000 |
| Kidney transplant | from $17,000 |
| Liver transplant | price on request |
