Marmara University Medical School, Turkey

Email: [email protected]

1998  M.D., Medical School, Marmara University, Turkey

Publications (Selected)

1. Çetinkaya, Ç., Ermerak, N. O., & Eralp, E. E., et al. (2026). Pulmonary endarterectomy in pediatric patients: Institutional experience. Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon.
2. Türe, O., Öztürk, F., & Demirbas, E., et al. (2026). Challenging BMI: Fat mass indices for improved postoperative risk prediction in CABG patients. Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon.
3. Ak, K., Çalican, E., & Öztürk, F., et al. (2025). Retrograde aortic dissection after thoracic endovascular aortic repair. Turkish Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 33(3), 386–390.
4. Yildizeli, S. O., Arikan, H., & Güngör, S., et al. (2025). Pulmonary endarterectomy: Risk factors for early and late mortality. Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon, 73(3), 230–236.
5. Ak, K., Tarazi, M., & Öztürk, F., et al. (2026). Prone positioning for acute respiratory failure after PEA: An initial experience. Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon, 74(3), 191–198.
6. Yildizeli, S. O., Arikan, H., & Tufan, A., et al. (2024). The effect of age on mortality after pulmonary endarterectomy. European Respiratory Journal, 64(Suppl. 68), PA761.
7. Ak, K., & Çalican, E. (2024). To be aggressive or not in type A aortic dissection repair: That is the question. Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 117(3), 662.
8. Ak, K., & Çalican, E. (2024). Be sensitive in transatrial to left ventricular cannulation: For organ preservation and cooling down. Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 117(3).
9. Basar, V., Ermerak, N. O., & Yildizeli, S. O., et al. (2023). Results of surgical treatment of pulmonary artery sarcomas: Does histology affect survival? Turkish Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 31(3), 388–397.
10. Ermerak, N. O., Yildizeli, S. O., & Kocakaya, D., et al. (2023). Surgical treatment of another sequalae of COVID-19: Post-COVID CTEPH. Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon, 71(5), 413–417.
11. Yalindag-Öztürk, N., Ak, K., & Girgin, F. I., et al. (2023). Case report of a successful pediatric central venovenous extracorporeal life support via right atrium-pulmonary artery cannulation for severe chest trauma and hemorrhagic shock. ASAIO Journal, 69(2), E106–E108.
12. Ak, K., Dericioglu, O., & Midi, A., et al. (2024). Comparison of Bretschneider HTK and blood cardioplegia (4:1): A prospective randomized study. Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon, 72(1), 11–20.
13. Arslanhan, G., Ak, K., & Özturk, F., et al. (2022). Pulmonary artery sarcoma treated with pulmonary endarterectomy and leaflet reconstruction using Ozaki technique. Journal of Cardiac Surgery, 37(12), 5630–5633.
14. Erol, M. E., Öztürk, F., & Ak, K., et al. (2022). Mid-term results of surgical interventions of high-grade vena cava tumor thrombus. Turkish Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 30(4), 542–548.
15. Ak, K., Arslanhan, G., & Tire, Y., et al. (2022). Transatrial balloon atrial septostomy to facilitate weaning off venoarterial ECMO after pulmonary endarterectomy. International Journal of Artificial Organs, 45(10), 883–885.
16. Ak, K. (2022). Assessment of the right ventricular function under venoarterial ECMO: A challenging issue. Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 114(1), 354–355.
17. Erol, M. E., Ak, K., & Öztürk, F., et al. (2022). Surgical treatment of massive pulmonary thromboembolism due to renal cell carcinoma. Turkish Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 30(3), 440–443.
18. Ak, E., Ak, K., & Midi, A., et al. (2021). Histopathologic evaluation of saphenous vein grafts in patients with type II diabetes mellitus undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting. Cardiovascular Pathology, 52, Article 107328.
19. Ak, E., Ak, K., & Ustandag, U. V., et al. (2020). Milrinone attenuates heart and lung remote injury after abdominal aortic cross-clamping. Annals of Vascular Surgery, 69, 391–399.
20. Ak, K. (2020). Evaluation of right ventricular function in functional tricuspid insufficiency. Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 109(4), 1304.
21. Gojayev, F., Solgun, H. A., & Ak, K., et al. (2020). Comparison of heat monitoring-based myocardial protection strategy with classic myocardial protection method in isolated coronary artery bypass surgery patients. Cardiovascular Pathology, 45, Article 107161.
22. Cenk, M., Akalin, F., & Saylan, B. Ç., et al. (2020). P wave dispersion in assessment of dysrhythmia risk in patients with secundum type atrial septal defect and the effect of transcatheter or surgical closure. Cardiology in the Young, 30(2), 263–270.
23. Ak, K., Birkan, Y., & Akalin, F., et al. (2019). Salvage pulmonary thromboembolectomy for massive pulmonary embolism in a child presented with syncope and subsequent cardiac arrest. Cardiology in the Young, 29(8), 1094–1096.
24. Ak, K. (2019). What are the criteria of success after neonatal arch reconstruction in the long term? Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 107(6), 1916–1917.
25. Ak, K., Hamidov, A., & Ileri, C., et al. (2017). Correction of cortriatriatum sinister with classical Raghib's complex using an extracardiac conduit. Journal of Cardiac Surgery, 32(11), 729–731.

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WOS ResearcherID: EJD-1209-2022