DEPARTMENT : Cardiovascular Surgery
PRIMARY LOCATION : Istanbul Florence Nightingale Hospital
LANGUAGES : English, Turkish
DEPARTMENT : Cardiovascular Surgery
PRIMARY LOCATION : Istanbul Florence Nightingale Hospital
LANGUAGES : English, Turkish
Uludağ University Faculty of Medicine – Ethics Committee Membership
Uludağ University Faculty of Medicine – Head of the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery
Ege University Faculty of Medicine
Koşuyolu Y.İ. training and research Hospital
Gaziosmanpaşa Medical Park Hospital
Bayrampaşa Kolan Hospital
Istanbul Florence Nightingale Hospital
1988 – Ege University Faculty of Medicine
1993 – Beilinson Medical Center, Petah Tikva Israel Senior Registrar, Cardiothoracic Surgery
1994 – Uludağ University Faculty of Medicine (Specialization)
2013 – University of Hannover
2014 – Oslo Rigshospitalet
2016 – Toronto General Hospital
1. Sağdıç K, Özer ZG, Saba D, Türe M, Cengiz M, “Venous lesions in Behçet’s disease,” Eur J Vasc Endovasc Surg, 11, 437-440 (1996).
2. Gebitekin C, Yılmaz M, Şenkaya I, Saba D, Sağdıç K, Özer ZG, “Fatal haemoptysis due to pulmonary artery aneurysm in Behçet’s disease,” Eur J Vasc Endovasc Surg, 13, 233-236 (1997).
3. Süngün M, Duran E, Cebeci BS, Us MH, Saba D, Saygın G, “The assessment of internal mammary artery grafts by color Doppler in coronary artery surgery,” J Cardiovasc Surg (Torino), 39, 75-78 ( 1998).
4. Saba D, Ercan AK, Şenkaya I, Gebitekin C, Özkan H, “Blunt aortic arch injury: two case reports,” National Journal of Trauma, 7, 201-203 (2001).
5. Saba D, Şenkaya I, Ercan AK, Kan İİ, Özkan H, “Is 100% beating heart coronary by-pass justifed?” Cardiovasc Surg, 10, 579-585 (2002). [Erratum in Cardiovasc Surg, 11, 102 (2003)].
6. Saba D, Sarıcaoğlu H, Bayram AS, Erdoğan C, Dilek K, Gebitekin C, Özkan H, Özer ZG, “Arterial lesions in Behçet’s disease,” VASA, 32, 75-81 (2003).
7. Saba D, Ener S, Biçer M, Kan Aytaç İİ, Şenkaya I, Özkan H, “Off-pump bypass grafting in patients with significant left main coronary artery stenosis,” Heart Vessels19, 8-12 (2004).
8. Aydınlı U, Öztürk C, Saba D, Ersozlu S. Neglected major vessel injury after spinal surgery (Case report). Spine journal (2004 Aug 1;29(15):E318-20)
9. Yılmaz M, Saba D, Karal İ, Ercan İ, Kumtepr G, Gurbuz O, Şenkaya I, Cengiz M. Postoperative outcomes after off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting in EuroSCORE low- and high-risk women. Heart Surg Forum. 2007;10(6):482-6.
10. Saba D, Yılmaz M, Noyan S, Avcı B, Ercan A, Özkan H, Cengiz M. Sutureless vascular anastomoses by N-butyl-2 cyanoacrylate adhesive: an experimental animal study. Eur Surg Res. 2007;39(4):239-44.
11. Yılmaz M, Şenkaya I, Saba D, Miçer M. Long-term outcomes of basilic vein transposition fistula for hemodialysis. Vasa. 2007 Feb;36(1):29-32.
12. Yılmaz M, Polat B, Saba D. Single-stage repair of adult aortic coarctation and concomitant cardiovascular pathologies: a new alternative surgical approach. J Cardiothorac Surg. 2006 Jun 27;1:18.
13. Bicer M, Saba D, Ozdemir B, Ercan A. Idiopathic spontaneous coronary artery dissection: a case report. Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2008 Dec;56(8):486-8. Epub 2008 Nov 14.
14. Biçer M, Bayram AS, Gürbüz .O, Senkaya I, Yerci O, Tok M, Anğ E, Moğol EB, Saba D. Evaluation of the efficacy of bio-absorbable oxidized regenerated cellulose for prevention of post-operative pericardial adhesion in the rabbit model. J Int Med Res. 2008 Nov-Dec;36(6):1311-8.
15. Biçer M, Ozdemir B, Işçimen R, Saba D, Yanar M, Tüydeş O, Senkaya I, Cengiz M.Postoperative Results of Off-Pump Coronary Bypass Grafting in Elderly Patients: A Single Center Experience. Open Cardiovasc Med J. 2009 Apr 1;3:15-20.
16. Dilek K, Ozçimen AA, Saricaoğlu H, Saba D, Yücel A, Yurtkuran M, Yurtkuran M, Oral HB. Cytokine gene polymorphisms in Behçet’s disease and their association with clinical and laboratory findings. Clin Exp Rheumatol. 2009 Mar-Apr;27(2 Suppl 53):S73-8.
17. Kurtoglu M, Koksoy C, Hasan E, Akcalı Y, Karabay O, Filizcan U; TROMBOTEK Study Group. Long-term efficacy and safety of once-daily enoxaparin plus warfarin for the outpatient ambulatory treatment of lower-limb deep vein thrombosis in the TROMBOTEK trial. J Vasc Surg. 2010 Nov;52(5):1262-70. Epub 2010 Aug 21.
18. Ercan A, Karal IH, Gurbuz O1, Kumtepe G, Onder T, Saba D. A comparison of off-pump and on-pump coronary bypass surgery in patients with low EuroSCORE. J Cardiothorac Surg. 2014 Jun 19;9:105. doi: 10.1186/1749-8090-9-105
19. Ercan A, Gurbuz O, Ercan A, Tuydes O, Bicer M, Saba D, Ozkan H. Vascular complications of intra aortic balloon pump usage in coronary bypass surgery: 18 years of experience. J Pak Med Assoc. 2014 Jan;64(1):28-32.
20. Yücel A, Dilek K, Saba D, Ozçimen AA, Yurtkuran M, Oral HB. Interleukin-2 gene polymorphism in Turkish patients with Behçet’s disease and its association with ocular involvement. Int J Immunogenet. 2013 Oct;40(5):349-55. doi: 10.1111/iji.12039. Epub 2013 Jan 21.
21. Working heart, cross-clamped pump or pumped heart: Which coronary bypass technique should be preferred in the patient with low EuroSCORE? Two center studies. Orcun Gurbuz1, Gencehan Kumtepe1, Ilker Hasan Karal2, Abdulkadir Ercan1, Davit Saba3, Serdar Ener4. Turkish Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery (in press)