We are the combination of four hospitals: the General Hospital, the Children’s Hospital, the Women’s Hospital and the Traumatology, Rehabilitation and Burns Hospital. We are part of the Vall d’Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus: a world-leading health park where healthcare plays a crucial role.
Patients are the centre and the core of our system. We are professionals committed to quality care and our organizational structure breaks down the traditional boundaries between departments and professional groups, with an exclusive model of knowledge areas.
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The commitment of Vall d'Hebron University Hospital to innovation allows us to be at the forefront of medicine, providing first class care adapted to the changing needs of each patient.
Team of professionals involved in the first transplants in the 1980s and 1990s
Three years after performing the first paediatric liver transplant in Spain, Vall d’Hebron carried out the first adult liver transplant, following two years of preparation led by Dr Carles Margarit.
On 1 October 1988, the Hospital performed its first adult liver transplant. The programme had begun to be developed two years earlier and was led by Dr Carles Margarit, who had already collaborated on the Hospital’s paediatric transplant programme while he was still a consultant at Bellvitge Hospital. In 1986, he joined Hospital Vall d’Hebron, where he worked intensively on the development of the adult liver transplant programme, with the support of Dr Josep Bonnín, then Head of the Surgery Department, and Drs Jaume Guàrdia and Rafael Esteban, Heads of the Internal Medicine and Hepatology Departments, respectively. Drs José Luis Lázaro, Joaquim Balsells and José Enrique Murio joined the Liver Transplant Unit, followed later by Dr Ramon Charco.
In 1988, Dr Carles Margarit was appointed Clinical Head of General Surgery at Hospital Vall d’Hebron. From that point on, he led the Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery and Liver Transplant Unit within the Surgery Department and was responsible for Vall d’Hebron’s Adult and Paediatric Liver Transplant Programmes.
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