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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 12 October 2024)
Sometimes you just gotta get lucky.
Selahattin Demirel (68), who lives in Istanbul, has had 4 heart
attacks but has resisted pleas to have a bypass operation out of
a fear of operations phobia.
However (!), when Demirel had a heart attack while driving
his car, miraculously, Dr. Şamil Gerek was driving the car
behind him. Dr. Gerek, who is the head doctor at Adana
Kadirli State Hospital, just happened to be in Istanbul for a
few days. He gave Selahattin bey a heart massage and got
him to a hospital quickly, saving his life.
Dr. Gerek persuaded Selahattin bey to have an operation.
Then, without entering the rib cage, the source of Selahattin
bey's fright, the operation was made through the underarm
by Prof. Dr. Cengiz Köksal, who explained that "with some
patients it is possible to perform a heart bypass operation
by entering the chest cavity through the underarm, rather
than by opening the rib cage, with the infection risk less
and the hospital stay reduced, as well. Perhaps the most
important aspect is that the patient doesn't see a scar and
feels better psychologically."
Selahattin bey is feeling pretty good these days.
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