Gazi Yaşargil

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Mahmut Gazi Yaşargil
Born (1925-07-06) 6 July 1925 (age 98)
Basel University
PhD MD
Years active1950–2009 Surgical field (neurosurgeon) 1950- (Professor of Neurosurgical Anatomy)
Known forFounding of Microneurosurgery,
Medical career
Profession
microvascular surgery
Cerebrovascular disease
AwardsNeurosurgeon of the half century (1950-2000) Neurosurgery 2009

Mahmut Gazi Yaşargil (born 6 July 1925) is a Turkish medical scientist and

microneurosurgery. Yaşargil treated epilepsy and brain tumours with instruments of his own design. From 1953 until his retirement in 1993 he was first resident, chief resident and then professor and chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery, University of Zurich and the Zurich University Hospital. In 1999 he was honored as "Neurosurgery’s Man of the Century 1950–1999" at the Congress of Neurological Surgeons
Annual Meeting. He is a founding member of Eurasian Academy.[1] He is regarded as one of the greatest neurosurgeons in the modern age.

Education and career

Yasargil at the Ether Dome
Yasargil clips with their compression forceps. This kind of metallic clips were developed by Yaşargil and are still used during neurosurgery to help treat aneurysms.

He was born in

Little Rock
where he is still active in the practice of micro-neurosurgery, research, and teaching.

Together with Harvey Cushing, Yaşargil is hailed as one of the greatest neurosurgeons of the twentieth century.[6] [7] He has helped three generations of neurosurgeons, defining what is possible in neurosurgery, and then demonstrating how to achieve it. In the micro-neurosurgical anatomical laboratory in Zurich he trained around 3000 colleagues from all continents and representing all surgical specialties. He participated in several hundred national and international neurosurgical congresses, symposia, and courses as an invited guest. Yaşargil is in high regard in the Turkish society and is respected as an exemplary role model for Turkish youth.

He is married to Dianne Bader-Gibson Yaşargil, who was the

nurse
in charge of the operating suite by his side since 1973.

Publications

Yaşargil published his surgical experiences in 330 papers and 13 monographs. The six-volume publication Microneurosurgery (1984–1996, Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart-New York) is the comprehensive review of his broad experiences and a major contribution to the neurosurgery literature.

Membership

  • 1973–1975 President of the Neurosurgical Society of Switzerland

Awards

References

  1. ^ Eurasian Academy Official Site
  2. ^ "M. Gazi Yasargil". Congress of Neurological Surgeons. 2019-06-09. Retrieved 2023-05-05.
  3. ^ Yasargil, Gazi (1969). Microsurgery applied to neurosurgery. Thieme.
  4. ^ Yasargil, Mahmut Gazi (1985). Microneurosurgery Tomo I: Microsurgical Anatomy of the Basal Cisterns and Vessels of the Brain, Diagnostic Studies, General Operative Techniques and Pathological Considerations of the Intracranial Aneurysms. Thieme.
  5. ^ Yasargil, Mahmut Gazi (1986). Microneurosurgery Tomo II: Clinical Considerations, Surgery of the Intracranial Aneurysms and Results. Thieme.
  6. ISBN 978-1-63393-182-4
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  7. doi:10.1097/00006123-199911000-00011
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  8. ^ Prof. Dr. Gazi Yaşargil'e Devlet Üstün Hizmet Madalyası takdimi töreninde yaptıkları konuşma Archived 2015-04-02 at the Wayback Machine

External links

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