20/01/2020
MEDICAL GENETICS DEPARTMENT
Samsun is the most pivotal city of the Central Black Sea region with its location and development. Samsun Training and Research Hospital is the largest state hospital in the region, which attracts patients from the surrounding cities (Sinop, Amasya Ordu, Tokat, Çorum) and their districts.
Our Medical Genetics Outpatient Clinic provides its clinical services on the ground floor of Samsun Training and Research Hospital campus.
Patients and their families can apply themselves or they can be referenced to our department by our colleagues. Patient admission is made by appointments via state’s MHRS appointment system from phone number "182". Newborns, oncology and cancer patients and pregnant women can apply directly without an appointment. Inpatient consultations are also held on the same day.
The aim of our department; To be able to make clinical diagnosis of patients with genetic disease in our society with high consanguineous marriages, to evaluate the treatment opportunities, to clarify their diagnosis with relevant genetic analysis, and then to provide their families with prenatal diagnosis and preimplantation genetic diagnosis (selective IVF) and preventive medicine services. Our main goals are to establish the clinical follow-up plans of patients who are diagnosed, to provide early diagnosis and treatment opportunities by carrying out genetic screening tests to risky family members, and to raise awareness about their diseases by giving genetic counseling.
Furthermore we aim to provide the best quality health service to our patients in the light of scientific data and to emphasize the importance of genetics.
Our clinic, which serves as a reference center, has applications from many centers with rare genetic diseases as well as common genetic diseases. After the clinical evaluations of these patients by evaluating their family history and all previous examinations, they are guided for specific tests and try to reach a definitive diagnosis. With accurate diagnosis, both the follow-up of the patient and the prenatal diagnosis of their families are provided.
Our patient groups are predominantly,
•Infertility, habitual abortus (recurrent pregnancy loss), menstrual disorders, consanguineous marriages,
•Hematologic and oncologic cases, familial oncological cancer cases such as familial breast / bowel cancers, leukemias,
•Mental retardation, Fragile X, Dysmorphic patients, Short stature, Gender development anomalies, Conge***al abnormal tissue and organ development, Muscular diseases (Duchenne muscular dystrophy, Spinal muscular atrophy) and children with an undiagnosed genetic disease,
•Chromosome anomalies, microdeletion syndromes previously diagnosed in the family, having a child with chromosome anomalies before,
•A family history of genetic disease that can be diagnosed with a biochemical or DNA test,
•Muscular and nervous diseases (Neuromuscular diseases), Neurometabolic, Neurocutaneous and Neurodegenerative diseases,
•Patients with early onset stroke and cardiologic problems, recurrent deep vein thrombosis and coagulation disorders with a history of embolism,
•Familial diabetes (MODY), Rheumatological diseases (FMF (Familial Mediterranean fever), Behçet, Ankylosing Spondylitis), Thalassemia, conge***al heart and kidney diseases, Connective tissue diseases, Skeletal dysplasias,
•Pregnant women with anomaly detected in ultrasonography (Fetal malformations, developmental brain and organ anomalies such as heart, kidney, skeleton etc.) and pregnant women with high risk in maternal screening tests.
Dr. Özlem SEZER
Medical Genetics Specialist
