Serdar Nazif Nasır is a Turkish

plastic surgeon Plastic surgery is a surgical specialty involving the restoration, reconstruction or alteration of the human body. It can be divided into two main categories: reconstructive surgery and cosmetic surgery. Reconstructive surgery includes craniof ...

. An associate professor at the

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, he led the team that performed in February 2012 the second full

face transplant A face transplant is a medical procedure to replace all or part of a person's face using tissue from a donor. Part of a field called "Vascularized Composite Tissue Allotransplantation" (VCA) it involves the transplantation of facial skin, the ...

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Education

Nasır finished the high school 1989 in

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. He completed his medical education at the Medicine Faculty of

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in 1996. Between 1996-2002, he conducted his specialty education in the Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery of Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine. After working seven years at

Süleyman Demirel University Süleyman Demirel University (SDU) ( tr, Süleyman Demirel Üniversitesi) is a public university located in Isparta, Turkey. Established in 1992, the university, with around 70.000 students, is the second largest academic institution in Turkey ...

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, Serdar Nasır returned to Hacettepe University in 2009. He carried out further studies between 2006-2008 on composite tissue transplants at

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, USA. Serdar Nasır is specialized in the fields of

breast reconstruction Breast reconstruction is the surgical process of rebuilding the shape and look of a breast, most commonly in women who have had surgery to treat breast cancer. It involves using autologous tissue, prosthetic implants, or a combination of both wit ...

, hand surgery, repair of tissue deficiencies, restoration of facial muscles in paralysis of facial nerves, and face and body esthetics.

Achievements

On February 24, 2012, Serdar Nasır and his team successfully performed two important transplants simultaneously at the Hacettepe University Hospital, a full face transplant and a multiple limb transplant. While the full face transplant was the second one in Turkey following the country's first-ever one after almost one month, the two-arm and two-leg transplant was the first trial in the world. The face of 25-year-old Cengiz Gül was badly burnt in a television tube implosion accident when he was two-years of age. The donor was 40-year-old N. A. (his family did not allow revealing of his identity), who was declared

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two days before the surgery following a motorcycle accident occurred on February 17. The second transplant was simultaneously carried out in another operating room on Şevket Çavdar (25), who lost his two arms and two legs in a

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explosion caused by

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as he was carrying out installation in 1998. The organs were taken from the same donor at

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's hospital in

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by Prof. Gökhan Tunçbilek, and were brought to Ankara on board an aircraft belonging to the Ministry of Health. Şevket Çavdar died on February 27, 2012, while he was being treated in the intensive care station, after his transplanted two arms and two legs were amputated the day before due to

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. This case was accepted as first quadruple extremity transplantation in the world.Nasir S, Kilic YA, Karaaltin MV, Erdem Y. Lessons learned from the first quadruple extremity transplantation in the world. Ann Plast Surg. 2014 Sep;73(3):336-40.

Awards

Serdar Nasır is the winner of second prizes in national competitions of experimental and clinical specialty for plastic surgery.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Nasir, Serdar Living people Turkish plastic surgeons Ankara University alumni Hacettepe University alumni Academic staff of Süleyman Demirel University Academic staff of Hacettepe University Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people)