Dr. Emin Tireli Reviews
Patient Experience
During Ramadan, Dr. Tireli operated on our 7-year-old during the day while fasting himself. His focus never wavered—he even postponed breaking his fast until after explaining the successful surgery to our family.
When our newborn Zeynep turned blue minutes after birth, Dr. Tireli performed an emergency arterial switch operation on her tiny heart—smaller than a walnut. His team worked through the night, and today she's a thriving 3-year-old who outruns her siblings.
As a professional athlete's daughter, 16-year-old Elif needed mitral valve repair that wouldn't end her basketball dreams. Dr. Tireli used a minimally invasive technique through her ribcage; she was dribbling again in six weeks and now plays college sports.
Our 8-year-old twin boys both had congenital defects—one needed a Fontan procedure, the other a ventricular septal defect closure. Dr. Tireli scheduled their surgeries back-to-back, personally checking on them every hour for 48 hours straight.
After medical tourism nightmares in three countries, we found Dr. Tireli for our 12-year-old's complex Ebstein anomaly. He redesigned the surgical approach using 3D-printed heart models, achieving what others called impossible.
A refugee family with no Turkish, we communicated through drawings and gestures until Dr. Tireli found an interpreter. He secured hospital charity funds for our baby's tetralogy of Fallot repair and visited us daily with toys.
Our teenager's rare cardiac tumor required a multidisciplinary approach. Dr. Tireli assembled a team including oncologists and radiologists, performing a beating-heart resection that preserved full cardiac function.
When COVID restrictions separated us from our hospitalized 5-year-old, Dr. Tireli video-called us during rounds, translated medical charts, and even sang our daughter's favorite lullaby before her atrial septal defect closure.
As engineers, we appreciated how Dr. Tireli used fluid dynamics simulations to optimize our infant's bidirectional Glenn shunt. He drew diagrams explaining hemodynamics better than our textbooks.
After our 14-year-old's emergency aortic dissection during a soccer game, Dr. Tireli raced to the hospital at 2 AM. His calm demeanor during the 10-hour surgery saved our son, who now wants to become a heart surgeon.
Dr. Tireli noticed our 6-year-old's unusual fatigue wasn't just from her repaired truncus arteriosus—he diagnosed an unrelated blood disorder and coordinated care with hematologists, demonstrating holistic thinking.
For our daughter's third reoperation, Dr. Tireli developed a custom-sized pulmonary valve using tissue engineering techniques he'd researched abroad. He stayed with her in ICU for three days until she stabilized.
A simple checkup revealed our asymptomatic 10-year-old needed urgent intervention for an anomalous coronary artery. Dr. Tireli's preventive surgery likely averted a sudden cardiac arrest during puberty.
When our baby's surgery was postponed due to a hospital equipment delay, Dr. Tireli personally drove to another facility to retrieve the specialized cannulas needed for her complex bypass.
