Installing heart pacemaker in Hisar Intercontinental Hospital

• Cardiovascular Department
   
• Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery Department
• Spine Health Center
• Orthopedics and Traumatology Department

Hisar Hospital was established in 2006. The hospital is located in Istanbul, a 5-minute drive from the Bosphorus, and 20 minutes away from the international airport.
 

Advantages of Hisar Hospital Intercontinental

• Treatment safety. A special automated PYXIS medicines system gives drugs for patients. It gives the drugs scanning a patient's fingerprint. The system accurately determines a drug dosage. PYXIS excludes the errors during drug therapy.
• Hospital's equipment. Hisar Hospital Intercontinental is equipped with the latest diagnostic devices — Aquilion 640 slice CT and 3 Tesla MRI. The computed tomography scanner provides the highly-accurate images and has minimal irradiation dose compared to previous CT modifications. The main advantage of the newest MRI is a reduced noise level and open type construction. This allows diagnosing patients with overweight and claustrophobia.

Hisar International Hospital in figures

Awards and Achievements of Hisar Intercontinental

JCI accreditation

Hisar Hospital is accredited by Joint Commission International, the global healthcare standards. To receive this certificate, the hospital confirms the compliance with such criteria as treatment safety, surgery quality, and staff qualification.

Cardiovascular Department

The Hisar cardiac surgeons specialize in the treatment of heart valve, coronary arteries diseases, and congenital heart disease in adults.

Doctors perform open and minimally-invasive surgeries that are performed through the small incisions. Due to a low injury rate, a patient feels less pain, the recovery goes faster than after the open intervention.

Minimally invasive treatment of mitral valve

Right lateral minithoracotomy is a surgery for the treatment of mitral valve pathologies. It is carried out through the incision up to 10 cm in size under the armpit, without muscles and bones damage.

Such an intervention is less traumatic compared to the open surgery, when the doctors make a 25-cm incision in the middle of the chest. The recovery goes speedy after the surgery.

Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery Department

Doctors perform diagnostics and treatment of heart diseases in children up to 18 years old. Doctors provide the drug and surgical treatments for such disorders as:

• congenital heart disease is a defect of heart structure present at birth
• heart valve diseases
• irregular heart rhythm.

2 operating theatres at Hisar has specific equipment for cardiovascular interventions in children.

Hisar Spine Health Center

According to Hisar's data, the Spine Health Center is a leading one for diagnostics and treatment of the spine in Istanbul.

Doctors treat scoliosis, kyphosis, spondylolisthesis (dislocation of the vertebra), fractures. The removal of benign and malignant tumors of bones, nerves, and spine soft tissues.

Doctors apply neuronavigation during surgery. The system allows a surgeon operating with maximum accuracy without damaging the nerves and spinal cord.

Operating theatre in Hisar Hospital

Orthopedics and Traumatology Department

The Orthopedics Department includes 3 subdivisions — the Trauma Center, the Pediatric and Adult Orthopedics Unit, the Tumor Surgery Unit.

Treatment options

• Arthroscopic surgeries. These are interventions through several punctures up to 1-3 cm in size made under control of the optical device — arthroscope. Doctors conduct arthroplasty for the meniscus, ligaments, and knee joint cartilage reconstruction.
• Joint replacement — the affected joint is replaced with the artificial one.
• Extracorporeal shock wave therapy. This is a treatment option with short waves, which break up calcium deposits in the joints. The therapy is applied to treat arthritis, plantar fasciitis (foot disease), false joint.

Services for international patients in Hisar Hospital

• airport-hospital transfer
• accommodation in a standard hospital room (it is included in the surgery cost)
• TV, DVD, WiFi
• 2 restaurants and cafe
• language assistance.

1-bed hospital room, Hisar Hospital