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We have compiled ranking of the best medical centers in Turkey and are ready to share the latest information about the leading clinics in Istanbul.
LIV HOSPITAL
Liv is considered one of the most famous and modern hospitals in Turkey. Having compliance with international standards, high qualifications of doctors, latest equipment and regular scientific research have made LIV the leader of medical opinion in Turkey.
A major transplant center of Turkey operates on the basis of the hospital. They do mainly kidney and liver transplants of varying degrees of complexity. Level of the hospital and its equipment allows for liver transplantation operations even for three-day babies. Many operations are performed personally by the head of the clinic’s transplant center,Professor Ayhan Dinçkan. Doctor is recognized as one of the best specialists in the field of transplantology in the Middle East. He has conducted more than 3,000 successful transplants, including transplants on newborns and transplants to patients with different blood groups.
As a university hospital, the medical center is additionally funded from large state funds, which can significantly reduce the cost of medical supplies and optimize the cost of patient care.
The price of a complete kidney transplant package for a foreign patient here is about $ 18,000 – this is one of the most affordable prices in Turkey.
About 13,000 surgeries are performed at the clinic each year. Being a multidisciplinary A + class medical center, all areas of modern medicine are available here, including oncology, transplantology, neurosurgery, cardiac surgery, orthopedics, and so on. Clinic is certified by the JCI (Joint Commission International) – the gold standard of medicine. Liv Istinye University Hospital belongs to the average price category, while the Liv Ulus Clinic is considered a premium class hospital (the service in the hospital corresponds to the world’s best hotels), and the cost is considered to be quite high.
KOC UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
Along with the American Hospital of Istanbul, Koç University Hospital is one of the clinics of the Koç Healthcare network. Network hospitals are considered to be few of the most advanced hospitals in Turkey. Both successfully uses the latest generation of medical equipment.
Koç Hospital is a multidisciplinary, the largest units here are the Department of Oncology, Orthopedics, Cardiac Surgery and Neurosurgery. Absolutely all services are available for patients, ranging from advisory, diagnostic, to complex surgical interventions.
The hospital’s senior medical staff regularly exchange experience with leading medical institutions in North America (mainly US hospitals), namely, with the MD Anderson Cancer Center, one of the largest cancer centers in America.
Radiotherapy and Radiology Department is equipped according to the modern standards of the MD Anderson Cancer Center. It posses one of the progressive radiological systems for radiation therapy Trilogy System Linear Accelerator, which is used to treat benign and malignant tumors of different localization.
Hospital is a member of the Living Heart international program, which brings together famous cardiovascular surgeons from around the world. Koç University Hospital is referred as the medical centers of the A class and the average price category. The second medical center of the Koc Healthcare network, the American Hospital of Istanbul (Amerikan Hastanesi), is considered a premium class hospital with a high price category.
CLINIC OF PLASTIC SURGERY AND AESTHETIC MEDICINE ESTETIK INTERNATIONAL
Estetik International plastic and aesthetic medicine center is one of the best in its segment of highly specialized clinics in Turkey and the Middle East. Hospital and its doctors are widely known outside of Turkey. Most demanding among the patients from the European Union, North America and Asia who come here for treatment. Many models and celebrities are among the patients of the clinic. The living Barbie (Pixie Fox) and Ken (Rodrigo Alves) were operated here. Founder of the clinic and the main medical mentor is the famous Dr. Bulent Cihantimur. Dr. B (as called by patients), has created number of unique author’s methods of plastic interventions, including the famous facelift Spider Web.
The essence of the Spider Web facelift technique is to inject special thinnest threads subcutaneously, inserted into the skin with the help of thin needles. During the procedure, the doctor forms a kind of “web”. Threads embedded in the patient’s body eventually become covered with collagen, which makes the skin elastic and taut. This procedure is possible on different parts of the body, for example, on the face.
Duration of placement of these filaments takes no more than 20 minutes and is performed under local anesthesia. Results are noticeable already in the first hours after the operation, but the patient will be able to appreciate the final effect in 4-6 months. The main profiles of the clinic are – plastic surgery, aesthetic medicine, dentistry. Here they perform:
FUE hair transplant and innovative organic hair transplant;
breast augmentation using implants or body fat (lipofilling, lipotransfer);
all types of rhinoplasty, blepharoplasty;
surgical and non-surgical face lift;
liposuction and abdominoplasty;
intimate aesthetic plastic surgery;
corrective interventions for scars and marks;
tightening and reduction of the mammary glands;
reconstructive operations of different levels of complexity.
Clinic belongs to the middle class price category, for example, the cost of breast augmentation (surgery only) using anatomical implants of the Mentor brand will be $ 2,800. A complete package of breast augmentation (all inclusive), including a week’s stay in a 5 * hotel, will be within 3450 US dollars. By the request of the patient, hotel and other services may be included in the cost of medical services.
MEDISTATE HOSPITAL
Medistate Multidisciplinary Hospital is a major medical center with a total area of more than 17,000 sq. M. One of the few hospitals in Turkey, which from the very beginning was designed and created according to the requirements and standards of the international accreditation system JCI. Hospital has modern equipment and highly specialized medical personnel, including well-known doctors:
Prof. Emin Ersoy – President of the Turkish Society of Laparoscopic and Endoscopic Surgeons. One of the most famous surgeons in the field of oncological colorectal surgery, obesity surgery, and abdominal oncological surgery.
Professor Oya Gökmen is the first doctor to begin artificial insemination (IVF) in Turkey.
Dr. Murat Bezer is a renowned specialist in the field of neurosurgery who has achieved particularly outstanding results in the operational correction of scoliosis.
The newest center of oncohematology and bone marrow transplantation operates in the hospital, headed by one of the best pediatric hematologists of Turkey – Professor Betul Tavil.
This center accepts treatment for children of any age, including newborns with congenital forms of leukemia.
Hospital conducts complex of treatment – chemotherapy and all options for bone marrow transplantation.
Medistate has access to an international database of bone marrow donors, which greatly expands the chances of finding a donor.
Center cooperates with ministries of health of many developing countries. This simplifies the financing of patients who come here for treatment in the area of government organizations.
Neurosurgery department of the clinic is famous for conducting minimally invasive interventions such as deep brain stimulation in Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease, as well as complex interventions – rhizotomy (surgery, which is used as one of the treatment options for patients with cerebral palsy). Medistate Hospital is one of the best in terms of price and high quality medical services ratio in Turkey.
NETWORK OF OPHTHALMOLOGIC CLINICS DÜNYAGÖZ
Dünyagöz – one of the largest international ophthalmic networks. The network clinics are located not only in Turkey, but also in the countries of the European Union. Today, Dünyagöz medical centers receive more than 96,000 patients per year.
All clinics are equipped with modern diagnostic and surgical equipment. For laser operations, the latest generation of laser systems are used here. Dünyagöz is a stronghold of innovation in ophthalmology. In addition to laser corrections, minimally invasive operations for lens replacement, glaucoma treatments, complex operations on the transplantation of donor and artificial corneas – keratoplasty (the clinic cooperates with a large donor cornea bank in Amsterdam), complex oculoplastic interventions, treatment of malignant neoplasms of the eye and surrounding tissues.
Experts recognized in Europe and the USA work in the largest clinics of the network (in Istanbul). Hospital cooperates with many large international insurance companies. The clinics use only certified consumables from world leading manufacturers (Alkon, Carl Zeiss and others). Hospitals of the network belong to the average price range and provide a full range of medical care to patients with ophthalmic pathology of any complexity.
