My procedure was liposuction to 3 areas - upper belly, lower belly and waist. My initial contact was with Dr Anna Petrikova through Bookimed. I sent my photos to her and spoke with her about possible hospitals in Turkey. She contacted some hospitals for me and came back with the recommended procedure and costs from the hospitals. Firstly mini tummy tuck with liposuction was suggested. I did not want a tummy tuck so asked Anna if she would contact the hospitals again for liposuction only and told her that I was not expecting to have the tummy of a 20 year old (I am 48), just an improvement would be acceptable. Anna came back to me with some choices for liposuction only and some prices. Don’t be afraid to ask as many questions as you want and to take your time with your decision. Anna answered all my questions as quickly as possible and did not pressurise me in any way. She was professional and very helpful at all times. Barbara from the care department at Bookimed suggested some hotels as I wanted to book my own. She came up with an apartment which was only about 10 mins from the hospital that I had decided on which was LIV hospital. I was then allocated a hospital coordinator - Nomonzaya Purevsuren. She was excellent and sorted everything to do with the hospital - taxi transfers to/from airport, accommodation and hospital, all translations with admission staff at the hospital, nurses, anethetist etc and she was in contact with me constantly. She went down to the operating theatre with me and was back at my room after my procedure to answer any questions and make sure everything was ok. I stayed at the hospital overnight and had regular contact with Nomonzaya - it was a bit like having a Personal assistant in a private hospital! I would have been lost without her and she was a great help. My surgeon at LIV hospital was Dr Zeynep Sevim. She was fluent in English and very professional. She answered any questions I had and I felt very comfortable with her - it was actually quite nice to have a female Dr. I was admitted to the hospital in the morning and after blood tests etc were carried out, my procedure was done the same afternoon. Everything went as expected and I was discharged the following afternoon. I went back to Dr Zeyneps clinic the next morning for a check up. The hospital and nursing staff were excellent and looked after me very well and although the nurses did not speak much English, Nomonzaya was always on hand. My husband was with me at the hospital most of the time and there was a pull out sofa bed in my room that he could have slept on if wanted. He was always made to feel welcome and was given food if he was there at meal times. All of this happened only 11 days ago so I am of course feeling a bit sore and bruised. I sent my updated photos to the Dr. this morning and she said that everything was looking good and I should send some more in around 2 weeks. It’s quite a scary thing to have any kind of surgery in a different country to your own but I feel as though I was taken care of very well by everyone at LIV hospital and I can already see the beginnings of my new shape after Dr Zeyneps excellent work!
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Paid and received a consultation. There is no video connection, everything went on Whatsapp from phones. The doctor answered questions well and in detail. I can not get a conclusion within 11 days from the date of consultation. The price of the operation was also sent to Whatsapp by a regular message. I do not recommend consulting with doctors at the LIV hospital.
Organizaciya
Very satisfied with the clinic and the visit at all, but communication in the clinic on low level because there working unskilled translators.
We liked the doctor who studied us for an hour, the time allotted to my son was, in fact, we got a lot of advice on our diagnosis, we still haven’t completed the tests, we will visit him again, we’ve been prescribed medications that we couldn’t even buy in Istanbul. this is of course a problem
Hospital accreditations of quality
Joint Commission International United States of America
Joint Commission International
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Certification according to DIN EN ISO 9001 by TÜV NORD CERT
The information on this page is provided by the hospital according to Bookimed Terms of Service · Date of content creation: 14.10.2014 · Last update: 26.06.2019
Special features of LIV Hospital:
- Cancer Center
- Center of Neurological Sciences
- Bone Marrow Transplant Center
- Orthopedics and Traumatology Clinic
- Figures at LIV for 2016
LIV Hospital is one of the leading medical institutions in Turkey.
LIV Hospital received the Certificate of Excellence in Colorectal surgery - the world’s first, the Certificate of Excellence in Bariatric surgery - the first in Turkey and other wards.
Cancer Center
LIV oncologists provide treatment for cancers of all kinds.
Main methods of treatment are:
- Robotic Surgery
- Radiation therapy
- HIPEC
- Oncogramme.
LIV Hospital Istanbul
Robotic Surgery is a main method of treatment for:
- esophageal oncology
- stomach cancer (applying for the removal of lymph nodes saving vascular structures at the same time)
- colorectal tumors (minimizing complications)
- pancreatic cancer (is considered as the most effective kind of surgery)
- cancer of the liver and biliary tract (reducing recovery period and pain and having following better cosmetic outcome)
- uterine cancer
- cervical cancer (in case if the tumor is less than 4 cm and hasn't spread)
- prostate cancer
- cancer in children.
LIV Hospital Robotic Surgery Center is chosen as a Center of Excellence by the Surgical Review Corporation (SRC) as a place of exceptional quality, safety, outcome and care.
Radiation therapy
Oncology diseases required radiation application are treated with IORT - Intraoperative Radiotherapy aimed at microscopical removal of affected organs and tissues saving the health ones.
HIPEC
Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy is aimed at treatment of:
Heated (40-42C) chemo agents are placed into the stomach for 1.5 hours to destroy cancer cells and minimize the exposure for the other tissues. HIPEC is more harmful than usual chemotherapy.
Medical treatment at LIV Hospital involves an Oncogramme - kind of lab method to detect what medicines will be more effective during the treatment. Is applicable if primary tumor origin is unknown, tumor is rare, a patient was unsuccessfully treated by medication prior, it is neсessary to determine drug sensitivity and patient's resistance.
Pediatric cancer is treated according to the treatment plans developed by the LIV Hospital Pediatric Oncology Council.
There is a special approach of teamwork at LIV Hospital Group called ALARA - 'as low as is reasonably achievable' to monitor the spread of cancer, estimate the treatment efficiency and post-treatment patient's condition to timely reach on any changes and minimize side effects.
All kinds of neurological disorders are treated in the Center. It is consisted of specialized units:
Brain and Neuro Surgery Department specialists provided 256 surgeries in 2016 including functional neurosurgery (DBS), brain and spinal surgeries, surgeries in children (hydrocephalus, craniosynostosis, etc).
Bone Marrow Transplant Center
BMT Center specialists at LIV Hospital have provided over 1,000 transplant procedures.
The diseases of leukemia, lymphomas, myeloma, aplastic anemia, testicular cancer, Ewing's sarcoma, immune deficiencies and metabolic illnesses of certain type.
Stem cells for the treatment are taken from bone marrow, peripheral blood, umbilical cord blood.
LIV Hospital doctors provide autologous (own patient's cells) and allogeneic (both from related and unrelated donor) transplants.
Orthopedics and Traumatology Clinic
The specialists of the Clinic deal with such cases as:
- scoliosis and kyphosis
- traumatic and degenerative spinal diseases
- spinal infection tumors
- spinal, hip, shoulder, hand and wrist, foot and ankle surgeries
- innovative knee surgery - MAKOplasty - for full/partial knee restoration with 97% of success rates.
LIV Hospital Ankara
Figures at LIV for 2016
LIV Hospital shows leading positions in Turkish healthcare system according to many criteria:
- 292,425 outpatients and 39,021 inpatients
- 50,104 foreign patients
- 13,263 performed operations
- 3,228 cardiosurgery operations. Survival rate is 96% (average index in Turkey – 89%)
- 2,502 – gastrointestinal tract operations. Survival rate – 94% (average index in Turkey – 89%)
- 256 neurosurgery operations. Survival rate is 91% (average index in Turkey – 81%)
- 2,340 orthopedic operations. LIV Hospital’s traumatology is the only department in Turkey which cooperates with the European organization AOSpine and applies MakoPlasty – the robot-assisted technique for knee endoprosthesis replacement without cords or muscles injuring.
- Survival after chest operations in 2015 and 2016 drew up 100%!
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LIV Hospital Group consists of multi-specialized Turkish hospital with two divisions of LIV Hospital Ankara, and LIV Hospital Istanbul (Ulus). Both of them are smart hospitals of new generation with all the medical technologies available in the world: da Vinci robot-assisted system for the surgeries, MAKOplasty for knee replacement, YAG Laser for vascular surgery, virtual angiography for cardiac diagnostics, etc. In 2016, LIV hospital had the best success rate among all Turkish hospitals. Three LIV centers are entitled as the Centers of Excellence.