Проф. д-р Али Ръза Курал - визитка

Prof. Dr. Ali Raza Kural

BRIEF INFORMATION:
Specialist:
urologist

CV and professional development

Prof. Dr. Ali Raza Kural was born in Bafra district of Samsun province in 1951. He is currently a specialist in urology whose work focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of prostate diseases.

The first robotic urological surgery in Turkey was performed by Dr. Ali Riza Kural in 2005. Kural is in the 8th year of this program with more than 800 robotic radical prostatectomies, more than 150 robotic kidney surgeries and more than 50 successful robotic bladder surgeries.

  • After completing his primary and secondary education in Samsun, he was allowed to study at the Faculty of Medicine of Istanbul University. In 1968 he started his training and in 1974 he started his specialization in the Department of Urology of the Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty of Istanbul University.
  • He wrote his dissertation on "The place of lymphangiography in urology", after which he immediately started his service at the Erzincan Military Hospital.
  • After that, for almost 1 year, he worked at the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh (Scotland) and in the same year he received the degree of Associate Professor.
  • During his training in Scotland, he followed training seminars on endoscopic prostate surgery, endoscopic urinary tract stone surgery (percutaneous nephrolithotomy, ureteroscopy) conducted by the "Institute of Urology" in London.

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The first closed surgeries for kidney stone patients!
  • In 1986, Prof. Dr. Ali Riza Kural began performing the first closed operations on patients with kidney stones at the Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty of Istanbul University. At the same time, he started to use a method of closed surgery called "TURP" in cases of benign prostatic hyperlasia.
  • To date, Prof. Dr. Kural has performed more than 4,000 TURP surgeries along with an equal number of successful nephrolithotomy and ureteroscopy procedures.
  • In 1995, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ali Raza Kural acquired the title of Professor. In the same year he performed the first urological laparoscopy.
  • In 2005, Prof. Dr. Ali Raza Kural performed the first Da Vinci robotic prostate cancer surgery in Turkey, Eastern Europe and the Middle East.
  • Prof. Dr. Kural is currently the Head of the Department of Robotic Surgery and Urology of Acibadem Maslak Hospital, Istanbul.

Memberships and publications

Scientific publications:

Prof. Dr. Ali Raza Kural has authored more than 150 articles in national and international journals and has also written chapters and sections again national and international textbooks. Although he continues to contribute to the spread of the use of endoscopy in Turkey by participating in courses and seminars held by the Turkish Association of Urology and Endourology, he also participates in the following international meetings held annually: the ERUS (European Robotic Urology Symposium) and WRUS (World Robotic Urology Symposium).

Some of his publications are:

  • Real case report - Laparoscopically treated giant renal hydatid cyst.
  • "Radical retropubic prostatectomy as a stand-alone therapy for the treatment of adult rhabdomyosarcoma"
  • "Transperitoneal laparoscopic radical nephrectomy and partial nephrectomy"
  • Special issue of "Laparoscopic Urology": Journal of Turkiye Klinikleri
  • "Bilateral percutaneous nephrolithotomy in a patient with Hemophilia A"
  • "Surgical treatment of retroperitoneal leiomyosarcoma with adjuvant radiotherapy"
  • "DNA methylguanine methyltransferase, glutathione transferase and nitric oxide activities in patients with bladder cancer"
  • "Urooncology Bulletin" - Kural AR; 2005.
  • "Our first experience with laparoscopic sacrocolpopexy with an anterior-posterior patch" , Turkish Journal of Urology
  • "Flexible urethroscopy in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the upper urinary system"
  • "Von Hippel-Lindau disease", Turkish Journal of Urology

Membership of professional organisations:

  • Prof. Dr. Kural has chaired many meetings and delivered many speeches at various international and national congresses. In addition, he is currently a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Robotic Surgery and a board member of ERUS (European Robotic Urology Society);
  • Host and President of the World Congress of Endourology WCE 2012, held in Istanbul in September 2012. At this meeting, live 3D surgeries were broadcast and Prof. Dr. Ali Riza Kural was the demonstrator.

Also Prof. Dr. Ali Raza Kural is a member of:

  • European Society of Robotic Surgery
  • American Urological Association
  • Endourological Society
  • Turkish Association of Urology
  • European Association of Urology

Clinical areas of interest

Prof. Dr. Ali Raza Kural's medical areas of interest and practice are:

  • Glomerulonephritis
  • Polycystic kidney disease
  • Stones in the kidney or ureter
  • Chronic kidney disease
  • Benign prostatic hyperplasia
  • Prostate, kidney, bladder carcinoma
  • Pyelonephritis
  • Erectile dysfunction
  • Kidney failure
  • Urinary incontinence

Additional information

Treatment methods used by Prof. Dr. Ali Raza Kural:

  • kidney transplantation
  • vasectomy
  • Greenlight Laser - a green light laser used for soft tissue removal, including vaporization of the prostate in benign prostatic hyperplasia
  • Diagnostic procedures with Da Vinci 3D camera
  • da Vinci robotic prostatectomy
  • robotic pyeloplasty
  • partial and complete robotic nephrectomy
  • laparoscopy
  • percutaneous nephrolithotomy
  • ureteroscopy
  • endoscopic surgery

Work streams:

Part of the team:

Болница Acıbadem Maslak - превю

Acıbadem Maslak Hospital

Acıbadem Maslak Hospital provides healthcare services in all fields of medicine, and began admitting patients in 2009.
Група болници Acıbadem

Acıbadem Hospitals Group

Acıbadem started its journey in providing healthcare services as a small district hospital in one of the neighborhoods of Istanbul, Turkey.

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