Prof., who also applied the Nuss technique, which is a closed surgical method for the treatment of the disease, which occurs in the form of Decoupling in the chest and is popularly known as shoemaker's chest, for the first time in Turkey. Dr. Yüksel taught the same method to his colleagues at the University of Vienna, where he went to get an education. Prof., who saved an 18-year-old patient from open surgery and operated with a closed technique. Dr. After South Africa and Russia, Yüksel conquered the hearts of European surgeons this time as well. Tuğçe Başar, who clung to life with the lung lobes taken from his parents in recent months, went to the University of Vienna, where he underwent surgery, to study lung transplantation. Dr. Mustafa Yuksel explained that his colleagues there had mentioned that he had one shoemaker breast, that is, pectus, before undergoing transplant surgery. Prof. Dr. Yüksel said, “He said to me, ‘Will you do this surgery? We were going to apply the open technique, but you are one of the names who do the closed technique very well, we also want to learn,’ they said. So I went into the surgery of a patient who was 18 years old and a little difficult case. We treated the patient with a closed method, and my Viennese colleagues were very pleased with this. We will also organize a course on this subject in Marmara in June. We are already receiving applications from all over the world. Now Turkish surgeons are teaching new things to the world, "he says. Long operation reduced to 20 minutes

 

Prof. Dr. Yüksel concludes his words as follows: "Dr. Pectus surgery. We entered together with Lang Georg. I shared all the subtleties of the Nuss technique."Pectus deformity, which manifests itself in the form of collapse and pitting in the rib cage, is known as a congenital disease. The disease, for which the only treatment is surgery, can also lead to serious problems because it puts pressure on the heart. The problem, which used to be treatable with a large operation of 4-5 hours, is corrected with a 20-minute operation thanks to the Nuss technique applied in the USA for the first time. ÖZLEM YURTÇU