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Cardiac Surgeon

Senior Consultant

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Istanbul, Turkey

Works at Acibadem Hospitals Group

39 years of experience

About Dr. Salis Tager

  • Dr. Salis Tager is a renowned Cardiovascular Surgeon practicing successfully for more than 39 years.
  • He offers treatment for cardiovascular problems.
  • He also performs Paediatric Cardiac Surgery.
  • He was instrumental in setting up the Cardiothoracic and vascular surgery in Acibadem Hospital. 
  • He is a member of several prestigious associations that include the Israeli Society of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Israeli Society of Cardiology, The CTS Net: Cardiothoracic Surgery Network, Israel Medical Association, The Macedonian Medical Association.
  • He is involved in research and has published papers in reputed medical journals.
  • He was the Editor for “Science Monitor” in 2003.

Location Location

Istanbul, Turkey

Special Interest

Minimally Invasive vein and radial artery harvesting OFF-PUMP CABG HEART-PORT Mitral Valve repair Robotic Surgery

List Of Treatments

  • Arrhythmia Treatment with Ablation and Pacemakers
  • Coronary Artery Surgery
  • Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) Treatment
  • Cardiac OPD Procedures
  • ECG-Treadmill Test TMT
  • 24 Hour Holter Monitoring
  • Ambulatory BP Monitoring (ABPM)
  • Echocardiography with Color Doppler
  • Stress Echocardiographyn
  • Myocardial Perfusion Imaging (MPI) Test
  • Thallium Test - Nuclear Stress Test
  • 64 Slice CT Angiography
  • PET Scan
  • Off Pump beating CABG LV restoration
  • surgery
  • Valve Repair Replacement
  • Atrial Fibrillation Surgery
  • Ross Procedure
  • Cardiac Tumour Treatment
  • Aortic Dissection Repair Surgery
  • Minimal access surgeries for valves
  • ASD (Atrial Septal Defect) Closure
  • Neonatal and Infant cardiac surgeries
  • Complex congenital heart surgeriesg
  • TAPVC - Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Connection Repair Arterial Switch
  • Single Ventricle Defects Surgery
  • ECMO Support
  • heart disease
  • Device Closure- ASD VSD
  • Balloon Septostomy
  • Balloon Valvuloplasty - Aortic
  • Pulmonary and Mitral
  • Fetal Echocardiogram
  • Coronary Angiogram
  • Peripheral Angiogram
  • PTCA-Percutaneous Transluminal
  • Coronary Angioplasty
  • Aortic Stent Grafting
  • EPS-Electrophysiological
  • Radiofrequency Ablation
  • PPI-Permanent Pacemaker Implant - Single Chamber
  • Biventricular Pacing
  • AICD
  • PTMC - Percutaneous Transvenous Mitral Commissurotomy
  • Heart Bypass Surgery (CABG)
  • Angiography
  • Aortic Valve Replacement
  • Mitral Valve Replacement
  • VSD Closure (Adult) Surgery
  • Heart Double Valve Replacement
  • PPI-Permanent Pacemaker Implant - Double Chamber
  • CRT- D Implant (Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy)
  • PDA Device Closure
  • Single Bypass and Valve Replacement
  • Valve Replacement
  • Congenital Heart Disorder CHD
  • Heart Bypass - Minimally Invasive CABG
  • Heart Implants
  • Heart Surgery
  • Rotational Atherectomy
  • Redo CABG
  • Angioplasty - 1 Stent
  • Angioplasty - 2 Stent
  • Aortic Valve replacement - Mechanical Valve
  • Aortic Valve replacement - Tissue Valve
  • Mitral Valve replacement - Mechanical Valve
  • Mitral Valve replacement - Tissue Valve
  • Aortic Valve Repair
  • Mitral Valve Repair
  • VP Shunting - Programmable Device
  • AV Canal repair
  • Bentall procedure
  • PDA Ligation

Work Experience of Dr. Salis Tager

, Assistant professor in Physiology, Faculty of Medicine. University “Edvard Kardelj” – Ljubljana, Slovenia

, Experimental study – The effect of Doxorubicin on the contraction of isolated human atria”, Sacler Medical School, Tel Aviv University, Department of Physiology

, Chief of Cardiac and thoracic surgery Department, Department of cardiac and thoracic surgery “Asouta Hospital” – Tel Aviv

, Fellowship for aneurysms, dissections, lung and heart transplantation, aortic and mitral valve repair, “Medizinische Hoch Schule” (MHH) Hannover – Prof H.G. Borst

, Honorary staff member, Cardiac and thoracic department, Faculty of Medicine – Hanover, Germany – Prof. H.G. Borst

, Course coordinator “Diseases of the aorta, Columbia University and Ben-Gurion University, Israel

, MIDCAB, OPCAB, Total Arterial Re-vascularisation, all Aspects of Aortic surgery, Valvular Surgery, Soroka University, Department for cardiac and thoracic surgery

, Deputy chief, Surgeon, Medical Center “Soroka” – Tel Aviv University

, Chief Course coordinator, the elective program in Cardiac Surgery for medical students, Medical Faculty Sacler – Tel Aviv University

, Senior staff surgeon, Department for aortic and complex reconstructive cardiac surgery

, Senior Consultant, Postgraduate studies in cardiac surgery and intensive care for residents, working since 2011

HOD, Acibadem Hospitals Group

Dr. Salis Tager's

  • , 1979, Faculty of Medicine – Ljubljana, general surgery, University “Edvard Kardelj”, Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • , 1985, Cardio and thoracic surgery – Prof. Moris Levi, Department for cardio and thoracic surgery – Medical Center Belinson
  • , 1988, Specialization in general surgery – Prof. R. Reis, Medical Center Belinson
  • , 1991, Cardiothoracic surgery, specialization– Prof. Moris Levi, Medical Center Belinson – Department of cardiothoracic surgery
  • , 1992, Postgraduate studies in adult and paediatric cardiology, Medical Faculty Sacler – Tel Aviv University
  • , 1993, Specialize in cardiac and thoracic surgery, Belinson (Rabin Medical Centre) Medical Faculty Sacler – Tel Aviv University
  • , 1996, MIDCAB, OPCAB & Minimally Invasive vein and radial artery harvesting, Innsbruck, Austria
  • , 2002, Postgraduate program in Cardiac surgery, Soroka University Medical Center, Israel
  • , 2003, OFF-PUMP CABG, Brussels, Belgium
  • , 2005, Hands on Course in HEART-PORT and” Master of Mitral Valve repair”, and basic training in Robotic Surgery, Aalst, Belgium

  • Associated with research and has several publications to his credit in noted medical journals. These are: Original Articles-
  • Erman A, Winkler J, Chen -Gal B, Rabinov M, Zelikovsky, Tager S, Schmueli H, Levy E, Akbary A, Rosenfeld JB. “Inhibition of Angiotensin converting enzyme by ramipril in serum and tissue of man”. J Hypertension 1991; 9:1057-1062.
  • Manoach M, Tager S, Erez M, Varon D, Vaugham Williams M. “The defibrillating effect of high cardiac catecholamine level (abstract)”. J Mol Cell Cardiol 1992; 24(Suppl V): 69.
  • Ghosh PK, Tager S, Raanani E, Levy MJ. “Late outcome of valve replacement with the Cross-Jones Caged-Lens prosthesis”. J Heart Valve Dis 1993; 2:485 – 6.
  • Pethig K, Wahlers T, Tager S, Borst HG. “Perioperative complications in combined aortic valve replacement and extra-anatomic ascending – descending bypass”. Ann Thoracic Surgery 1996; 61:1724-6.
  • Wagshall AB, Tager S, Maor E, Weinstein JM, Ganiel A, Katz A, Ovsysher IE. “Implantable defibrillator Endocarditis”. Pacing Clin Electrophysiology 1999; 22:1120.
  • Wagshall AB, Appelbaum A, Crystal P, Goldfarb B, Erez A, Tager S, Katz A. Atrial tachycardia as the presenting sign of a left Atrial appendage aneurysm. Pacing Clin Electrophysiology 2000; 23:283-5.
  • Gilad J, Borer A, Peled N, Reisenberg K, Tager S, Appelbaum A, Schlaeffer F. Hospital-acquired brevundimonas vesicularis septicaemia following open-heart surgery: case report and literature review. Scand J Infect Dis 2000; 32:90-1.
  • Marcus-Braun N, Segal D, Merkin M, Wiznitzer A, Katz M, Tager S, Ilya R, Mazor M. “Anticoagulation in Pregnant women with prosthetic heart valve – a new approach for therapy”. Harefuah. 2003 Jul; 142(7): 508-11, 567.
  •  Gatot I, Abramov D, Tsodikov V, Yeshaaiahu M, Orman S, Gavriel A, Chorni I, Tuvbin D, Tager S, and Appelbaum A. Should We give Prophylactic “Renal-Dose” Dopamine after Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery? J Card Surg 2004; 19:128-33.
  • Abramov D, Yeshaaiahu M, Tsodikov V, Gatot I, Orman S, Gavriel A, Chorni I, Tuvbin D, Tager S, Appelbaum A. Timing of chest tube removal after coronary artery bypass surgery. J Card Surg. 2005; 20(2):142-6.
  • Jovev S, Tager S, Spirovski Z, Arsovski A, Trajkovska T, Proevska D, Kondov G, Colanceski R, Spirovska V. “Right heart hemodynamic after lung resection; the role of the trans-thoracic echo-Doppler cardiography”. ‘Prilozi’ 2006 Dec; 27(2):201-16.
  • Spigelstein D, Ghosh P, Sternik L, Tager S, Shinfeld A, Raanani U. Current Strategies of Mitral Valve Repair. IMAJ 2007; 9:303-9.
  • Yuan SM, Shinfeld A, Tager S, Kassif Y, Raanani E. “Modifications of
  • Composite grafts for coronary bypass surgery”. Int J Cardiol 2007; 121:196-7.
  • Sheih YB, Shinfeld A, Tager S, Preisman S, Smolinsky A, Raanani U. Aortic Valve Spearing surgery. Harefuah 2007; 146(11):849-53, 910.
  •  Yuan S, Shinfeld A, Tager S, Raanani U. “Onset of neo-aortic root dilatation 18 years after an arterial switch operation”. Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine 2008; 9:298-300.
  • Yuan SM, Shinfeld A, Tager S, Raanani E. “Onset of neoaortic root dilatation 18 years after an arterial switch operation”. J Cardiovasc Med (Hagerstown) 2008; 9(3):298-300.
  • Sheick Yousif B, Sheinfield A, Tager S, Ghosh P, Priesman S, Smolinsky AK, Raanani E. Aortic root surgery in Marfan syndrome. IMAJ 2008; 10:189-93.
  • Kogan A, Ghosh P, Preisman S, Tager S, Sternik L, Lavee J, Kasiff I, Raanani E. Risk factors for failed “fast-tracking” after cardiac surgery in patients older than 70 years. Journal of cardiothoracic and vascular anaesthesia, 2008; 22(4):530-5.
  • Yuan SM, Tager S, Raanani E. Anomalous origin of the right coronary artery from the left coronary sinus. Chang Gung Med J 2009; 32:455-8.
  • Yuan SM, Tager S, Raanani E. Fever of unknown origin as a primary presentation of chronic aortic dissection. Vascular 2009; 17:230-3.
  • Yuan SM, Shinfeld A, Tager S, Raanani E. Aortic aneurysm-induced disseminated intravascular coagulopathy: successful surgical repair. Vascular 2009; 17:55-9.
  • Yuan SM, Tager S. Acute onset of chronic aortic dissection presenting as abdominal pain. Kardiologia Polska 2009; 67:168-72.
  • 23. Yuan SM, Tager S. Penetrating atherosclerotic ulcer aneurysm of the in nominate artery. Vasa 2009; 38:263-6.

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Dr. Salis Tager practices at Acibadem Hospitals Group

Dr. Salis Tager specialty is Cardiac Surgeon

Dr. Salis Tager is Cardiac Surgeon with 39 years of experience.

More About Cardiac Surgeon

A cardiac surgeon is a specialist who operates on the heart, lungs and other thoracic (chest) organs and they also diagnose and treat diseases of these organs.

The typicals symptoms include Chest pain, chest tightness, chest pressure, chest discomfort Shortness of breath associated with Pain, numbness, weakness or coldness in the legs or arms.

Investigations like blood reports, Chest x ray, Electrocardiogram, Pulmonary function test, Carotid Dopping, Vein mapping, Trans-esphogeal echocardiogram, Heart Catheterization, and Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging would be required.

Cardiologist perform procedures in cath lab like Balloon angioplasty, Coronary and left ventricular digital angiography, Right and left heart catheterization, Rotational artherectomy, Stent implantation etc whereas a Cardiac surgeon perform surgery of the heart and chest.

Stay in the hospital is usually for 7 – 10 days

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