by Dimitra Kakoulidi | May 4, 2017 | MEDICAL NEWS, Uncategorized
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...
by Dimitra Kakoulidi | Mar 10, 2017 | CONGRESSES
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...
by Dimitra Kakoulidi | Mar 4, 2017 | MEDICAL NEWS
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...
by Dimitra Kakoulidi | Feb 8, 2017 | MEDICAL NEWS
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...
by Dimitra Kakoulidi | Feb 7, 2017 | MEDICAL NEWS
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,...
by Dimitra Kakoulidi | Jan 6, 2017 | MEDICAL NEWS
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...
by Dimitra Kakoulidi | Dec 28, 2016 | MEDICAL NEWS
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...
by Dimitra Kakoulidi | Dec 13, 2016 | Uncategorized
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...
by Dimitra Kakoulidi | Nov 7, 2016 | CONGRESSES
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...
by Dimitra Kakoulidi | Sep 29, 2016 | MEDICAL NEWS
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...
