Husnu Altin
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MD
Senior Attending Physician in Cardiovascular Surgery
Years Of Experience: 12
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About Dr. Husnu Firat Altin
Dr. Husnu Firat Altin is a senior attending physician in cardiovascular surgery at Sidra Medicine since 2023 and previously worked as a pediatric cardiovascular surgeon at the University of Health Sciences, Siyami Ersek Hospital in Turkey for 5 years.
After completing cardiovascular surgery specialization in 2011, he performed coronary bypass, valve, and saphenous vein endovenous laser ablation operations on adult patients for 2 years at Diyarbakir Gazi Yaşargil Hospital. He has researched endovenous laser ablation extensively and has been published.
Dr. Altin has over 18 years of experience and worked primarily in the field of congenital heart surgery during his cardiovascular surgery education and training. In Turkey, he received the title of associate professor in 2017 and professor in 2022. In 2015, he was selected as the Doctor of the Year by the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Turkey and came first in Türkiye in the fellowship exam in 2013.
He has 55 articles with 300 citations and 3 patents in the application/pre-examination stage for a custom, hand-made conduit creation.
Dr. Altin is committed to quality improvement in health, including sharing surgical video online, research studies, training of fellows, and detailed patient information.
Languages Spoken English, Turkish
Years Of Experience 12Education - MD, Istanbul University Cerrahpasa Medicine Faculty, 2004
- Cardiovascular Surgery Residency, Siyami Ersek Hospital, Istanbul, 2011
- Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgery Fellowship, Mehmet Akif Ersoy Hospital, Istanbul, 2015
- Congenital Cardiothoracic Surgery Fellowship, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, USA, 2017
- Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery Fellowship, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA, 2018
Areas of Interest - Valve repair (Ozaki procedure, pulmonary valve reconstruction)
- Arrhythmia surgery
- Custom made, hand-made conduits
- Right ventricular surgical remodeling
- Research studies on intraoperative imaging and computational fluid dynamics
Medical Publications - Evaluation Of Mid-Term Outcomes After Shone’s Complex Surgery: Analysis of Reoperation And Mortality Risk Factors. Journal of Cardiac Surgery. 2023
- Systemic Venous Reconstructions During Pediatric Heart Transplantation. World J Pediatric Congenital Heart Surg. 2021
- Effect of Atrioventricular Valve Repair on Multistage Palliation Results of Single-Ventricle Defects. Annals of Thoracic Surgery. 2021
- Early Infant Symptomatic Patients with Tetralogy of Fallot With Absent Pulmonary Valve: Pulmonary Artery Management and Airway Stabilization. Annals of Thoracic Surgery. 2020
- Early outcomes of usage of cryoFORM® probe for cryomaze procedure in congenital heart surgery. Cardiology in the Young. 2020