La Arruzafa Hospital in Cordova is the first one in Andalusia implanting bionic eye. The patient lost her vision 30 years ago as a consequence of a genetic disease called Retinitis Pigmentosa. Josefa, born in Cordova and aged 62, started to lose her vision when she was a child. This surgery has brought her vision back […]
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Manuel Concha, an eminence of cardiovascular surgery and a pioneer in cardiac transplants
“I could have not become a doctor”. These are the words that Doctor Manuel Concha uses to define his life, a series of coincidences which have led him to become one of the best cardiovascular surgeons in Spain. In 1986 he performed the first cardiac transplant in Andalusia and was also the first one who […]
3D neuronavigation through the brain for safer surgery and a better planning
The Brain Dynamics Company, a spin-off of the University of Málaga, has developed a neuronavigation system that reconstructs the brain in 3D. It is a tool that they intend to use to make brain surgery less invasive and more efficient for the patient, offering a better training to neurosurgeons.
Tomás Gómez Cía, innovation’s hands in Andalusian surgery
Tomás Gómez Cía is a doctor born in Pamplona who arrived to Seville in the 80’s to do his residency at the Plastic Surgery Unit at the Virgen del Rocío Hospital in Seville and today he is the head of this department. In 2010 coordinated the first face transplant in Andalusia, which was also the […]