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...
Dr Vasileios Drakopoulos participated with a total of 4 abstracts at the 1st Panhellenic Conference of the Hellenic Hepato- Pancreato- Biliary Association, which took place at the Crowne Plaza Hotel of Athens, from March 3rd to March 5th 2017. The goal of the conference was...
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,...
Dr Drakopoulos attended the 30th Panhellenic Congress of Surgery & Surgical Forum, the leading scientific event of the Hellenic Surgical Society, among distinguished surgeons internationally. Dr Drakopoulos participated in the Round Table Session about the development of Organ Transplantation Surgery, where he lectured about the...
Dr. Vasileios Drakopoulos participated as a speaker at the seminar "Minimally Invasive Abnominal Wall Hernias’ Repair Surgery" which was held on November 5th, by the Greek Society of Endoscopic Surgery and other Interventional Techniques. Dr. Drakopoulos presented with a video case-study the "Laparoscopic Total Extraperitoneal...
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...