BAU Medicine Holds Percutaneous Peripheral Vascular Intervention Course

The Percutaneous Peripheral Vascular Intervention Course, organized by the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery of the BAU Faculty of Medicine on Saturday, 13 June 2015, was held at BAU Göztepe Campus.. Approximately 40 specialists attended the full-day meeting chaired by Prof. Dr. Süha Küçükaksu. In the course, which began with the opening speech of BAU Faculty of Medicine Dean Prof. Dr. Türker Kılıç, the specialists shared up-to-date information and in the afternoon had the opportunity to perform interventions with simulators at the Rhoton Anatomy Laboratory. BAU Medicine students also showed interest in the course, and our students had the chance to put into practice what they learned in the course.

Stating that there are millions of vascular patients in Türkiye, Prof. Dr. Süha Küçükaksu said that "endovascular intervention methods," defined as interventions performed from inside the vessel, are therefore becoming increasingly important. Describing endovascular methods as the newly developing branch of cardiovascular surgery, Prof. Dr. Küçükaksu stated that the courses they organize aim to increase practice and provided the following information:

"In recent years, our goal has been for an approach consistent with the definition of complete surgery or hybrid cardiovascular surgeon to prevail, performing cardiovascular surgery without using a scalpel, by using vessel-opening methods such as catheters and stents. The approach has now changed all over the world; we are moving beyond the classical understanding of cardiovascular surgery. We can perform diagnosis and treatment at the same time. In fact, we can say that the rate of endovascular interventions, which has increased in recent years, has become equal to that of open surgery."