Dr. Vasileios Drakopoulos successfully performed the first laparoscopic left lateral hepatectomy at "Evangelismos" G.H.A., on a patient with metastasis on Segment III of the liver. The surgery was carried out at the 1st Surgical Clinic & Transplant Unit of the Hospital, under the direction of...
Dr. Vasileios Drakopoulos lectured during the Postgraduate Course “Sleep Breathing Disorders – Sleep Laboratory and Clinical Sleep Medicine” on “Bariatric Surgery & Sleep Apnea”. The lecture took place at the "Evangelismos" G.H.A., on Tuesday, October 3rd. Dr. Drakopoulos gave facts that prove the relation of Sleep Apnea with...
The highly complicated laparoscopic total pancreatoduodenectomy with concurrent lymph node cleansing was successfully completed by Dr. Vasileios Drakopoulos, at a very rare case of a patient with coexisting Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Neoplasm (IPMN) and Solid Pseudopapillary Neoplasm of the Pancreas (SPNP). It is worth mentioning...
In one of the few, but promisingly increasing, cases of a private hospital initiating to propose an Organ Donation, today at dawn, a «Life Bridge» commenced from the Athens Medical Center. A 62 y.o. donor, which resulted from intracranial haemorrhage, gave life, after her family’s altruistic...
Yesterday late in the evening, surgical teams from five hospitals in Greece, Germany and Italy met at the G.H.A. "G. Gennimatas " for the graft removal from a female donor 33 years old, whose family took the brave decision to donate her organs. The Team...
The 51 years old patient's family, who had been on the waiting list for a heart transplant since 2015, decided in a gesture highest altruism, to donate his organs after his death on Thursday, February 2nd at the Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center. Saturday at dawn, surgical...
Almost a year after the unprecedented in Greece, graft removal operation, simultaneously from two organ multi-donors, at the “Venizelio” Hospital of Heralkion, Crete, Transplant Teams from 3 Hospitals met again in Heraklion, today, on Epiphany Day, for the graft removals of a 27 y.o. donor,...
Dr Vasileios Drakopoulos performed a successful Laparoscopic Total Colectomy on a woman aged 58 y.o., who suffered from colon cancer. The laparoscopic approach offers – compared to traditional, open surgery – less loss of blood, less postoperative pain, rapid recover and return to everyday life,...
One more successful laparoscopic nephrectomy for living donor kidney transplantation was concluded today at “Evangelismos”, validating once again the success of this method in Greece - as adopted and implemented exclusively by the 1st Surgery Clinic & Organ Transplantation Unit of the G.H.A. “Evangelismos”, run...
The most precious gift from a 57 y.o. donor, next to his brave family’s decision to turn loss into hope, by authorizing organ donation. Following the great efforts of the G.H.A “Evangelismos” ICU doctors, the donor’s organs were recovered earlier today, with the participation of surgical...