1st Panhellenic Conference of the Hellenic Hepato- Pancreato- Biliary Association
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...
Athens Medical Center: the starting point for today’s “Life Bridge”
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...
5 days, 5 donors, 20 fellow humans with a second chance at life!
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...
Donor, on the list for transplant himself, gave life.
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,...
“LIFE BRIDGE” TODAY IN CRETE
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...
Laparoscopic Total Colectomy
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...
30th Panhellenic Congress of Surgery & Surgical Forum 2016: “Quality and Safety in Surgery”, December 8-12, Thessaloniki
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...
MINIMALLY INVASIVE ABDOMINAL WALL HERNIAS’ REPAIR SURGERY
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...
