Marko Turina

Marko Turina (Zagreb, 1937) is Croatian cardiac surgeon. He was the Director of Klinik für Herzgefasschirurgie, University Hospital of Zurich in Zurich, Switzerland. He was one of the first people to insert an artificial heart outside the chest and among the first people to operate on congenital heart defects. Marko Turina is considered as a surgeon of high international prestige.[1]

Biography

Marko Turina was born in Zagreb. He was a great student, but because Communist Party of Yugoslavia declared him a bourgeois he had no future in SFR Yugoslavia. At first Communists sent him to Banja Luka to serve in the Army. His wish to attend Belgrade Academy for Medical Officers was denied. After that he decided to leave Yugoslavia. He was considered as political emigrant because of his anti-Communist attitudes. He went to Switzerland where he found a job at University hospital of Zürich in 1964 under Ake Senning. In 1985 he became chef of Center for Heart and Blood Vessels Diseases. He was retired in 2004, despite his ambitions to continue his career.[2] His retirement came shortly after the death of a patient he and his team operated on, the patient was transplanted a heart of non-compatible blood type.[3] He is still active, he teaches about cardiac surgery around the World.

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References
  1. Robert Bajruši (5 June 2002). "Marko Turina Zagrepčanin u vrhu svjetske kardiokirurgije" [Marko Turina, a Zagreb native in the pinnacle of global heart surgery] (in Croatian). Nacional (weekly). Archived from the original on 2 July 2012. Retrieved 2 July 2012.
  2. (in Croatian) Najslavniji hrvatski kardiokirurg operira u 72. godini (retrieved on March 12, 2011)
  3. "Tödlich verlaufene Herztransplantation am Zürcher Universitätsspital als fahrlässige Tötung beurteilt: Marko Turina und zwei weitere Ärzte schuldig gesprochen". Neue Zürcher Zeitung. Retrieved 2016-01-11.
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