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The transplant programs were started more than thirty year ago, with the academia and investigative support of the Medicine Faculty of the Universidad de Antioquia. Since the, the achievements have been constant and for this it has been positioned as one of the most advanced transplant units in Colombia and Latin America.

Our commitment with the patients and their families is to offer a high quality service in the stages of pre-transplant, during the transplant and after in the follow-up, which should guarantee a good quality of life.

The Transplant Unit is conformed by an interdisciplinary group of specialist doctors, capable in the area and with high experience in the attention and management of the patients, with the participation of professionals of diverse assistential and administrative areas. The Transplant Unit has new building, constructed in 1998 in accordance with international standards established for the integrated management of these programs.

OUR ACHIEVEMENTS
1973, In Colombia, first kidney transplant with live donor.
1974, In Colombia, first successful kidney transplant with cadaver donor
1976, In Latin America, first liver transplant.
1976, In Colombia and Latin America, first bone marrow transplant.
1988, In Colombia, first simultaneous kidney - pancreas transplant.
1993, In Colombia first bone marrow transplant
2000, In Colombia first combined liver-kidney transplant.
2001, In Colombia, first umbilical cord cell transplant.
2002, In the World, second larynx transplant.
2003, In the World, primer transplant de trachea
2003, In the World, first combined Larynx-trachea transplant
2004, In Colombia, first thin intestine transplant.
2004, In Colombia, first autologous transplant of parent cells from bone marrow via intracoronary, for patients with isquemic cardiac illness.

KIDNEY TRANSPLANT
Kidney transplant was started in the Hospital in the year 1973 and since that date up to now it has been and uninterrupted work, reaching great recognition in the national and international ambit. In the month of April 2005 3000 kidney transplants had been performed. The success obtained by the program reflects in the results which are at same level of those of the developed countries.

The Hospital is in a capacity of realizing transplants with live or cadaver donors.

In the Renal Unit of the HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO SAN VICENTE DE PAUL the patient receives an integrated management of those health problems directly related with kidney illness and its complications and of the problems that may derive from the treatment, that is, from dialysis (hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis) or from kidney transplant.

The Renal Unit at HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO SAN VICENTE DE PAUL is the result of the association of several entities that offer the best they have to give the patient, high technology solutions, offered with the highest human, scientific and assitential quality.

Nefron: Leading Company in Colombia joins professionals that offer their services in the kidney illnesses area. Professionals in medicine and surgery, with specialized studies in national and international universities contribute human talent.

Fresenius Medical Care: multinational enterprise contributes its technical and investigative experience, supplies and high technology equipment and nursing, administrative and operative personnel for the management of peritoneal dialysis and hemodialysis.

Attention to patients with kidney problems is offered by:
- Nephrology internists
- Pediatric nephrologists
- Cardiovascular and transplant surgeon
- Medical surgeons
- Professional in health areas in: social work, psychology, nutrition and dietetics.

You can find the following services in the Renal Unit:
- Clinical nephrology
- Management of kidney disease previous to chronic terminal kidney insufficiency
- Therapy with peritoneal dialysis
- Kidney transplant
- Complimentary procedures:
- Creation and surgical management of definite vascular access (fistulas arteriovenous) and transitory (femoral or jugular catheters)
- Surgical management of peritoneal catheters

MEDICAL TEAM
NEPHROLOGISTS
Dr. Jorge Luis Arango Acosta
Dr. Mario de Jesús Arbeláez Gómez
Dr. Jorge Enrique Henao Sierra
Dr. Gonzalo Mejía Vélez
Dr. Álvaro García García
Dra. Inge Helena Arroyave Cadavid
Dr. José Nelson Carvajal Quiroz
Dr. Gustavo Adolfo Zuluaga Valencia

CHILDREN NEPHROLOGISTS
Dra. Liliana Rubio Elorza
Dra. María Claudia Prada

SURGEONS
Dr. Álvaro Velásquez Ospina
Dr. Jorge Iván Gutiérrez Montoya
Dr. Germán Alfonso Lenis Duque

CONTACT US
elhospital@elhospital.org.co
mercadeo@elhospital.org.co

LIVER TRANSPLANT
The HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO SAN VICENTE DE PAUL is pioneer and leader in the area of liver transplants. In 1976 it realized the first liver transplant in Latin America.

Now days with an average of 50 liver transplants per year, the Hospital is the leader in Latin America and it is the reference site nationally and internationally thanks to a team work that guarantees one of the shortest waiting lists in the world, one month. It has a success rate comparable to those of any other first level world center,

With a medical team of specialists, formed in the best transplant centers in the world, it has conformed a work team that guarantees maximum quality and efficiency in the service.

MEDICAL TEAM
Dr. Luis Gonzalo Guevara Casallas
Gastroenterologist – Internist
Clinical and Transplant Hepathologist

Dr. Alfredo Santamaría Escobar
Pediatrician
Clinical and Chile Transplant Hepathologistl

Dr. Jorge Iván Gutiérrez Montoya
Abdominal Transplant Surgeon

Dr. Germán Alfonso Lenis Duque
Vascular and Transplant Surgeon

Dr. Héctor Gabriel Melgarejo
Child and Transplant Surgeon

CONTACT US:
mercadeo@elhospital.org.co
trasplantes1@elhospital.org.co
elhospital@elhospital.org.co

HEART TRANSPLANT
As one of its biggest strengths is that within the Unit there is a Cardiac Failure Clinic where patients with indication for transplant are evaluated in a multidisciplinary way. A follow-up is done until they fulfill the conditions to be included in the waiting list of patients to be transplanted.

Before the Unit was created, several professionals, integrants now, participated actively in the heart transplants realized in the Cardiovascular Clinic since 1985.

MEDICAL TEAM
Dr. Fidel Antonio Cano Restrepo
Cardiovascular Surgeon
Dr. Oscar Alberto Velásquez Uribe
Cardiovascular Surgeon
Dr. Francisco Uribe Tautiva
Cardiovascular Surgeon

Dr. Juan Manuel Senior Sánchez
Clinical cardiologist

Dr. Luis Horacio Atehortúa López
Cardiovascular Intensive Care
Dr. Héctor Darío Arroyave Páramo
Cardiovascular Intensive Care

Dr. Fernando León Alzate Colorado
Cardiovascular Anesthesiologist

Dra. Claudia María Navas Ríos
Cardiac Rehabilitation

Dr. Sergio Daniel Ortiz Rangel
Cardiac Rehabilitation

HEART STEM CELL TRANSPLANT
Cardiovascular information continues being one of the first causes of disease and death in adult population. For its treatment different invasive methods have been used at coronary vessels level. It has been necessary to complement with new techniques of cellular regeneration, now days called Autologus Transplant of parent cells from bone marrow for patients with severe cardiac failure.

In 2004 the HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO SAN VICENTE DE PAUL was pioneer in Colombia in realizing Autologus Transplant of parent cells of bone marrow for patients with severe heart failure.

MEDICAL TEAM
Dr. Juan Manuel Senior Sánchez
Cardiologist

Dr. Oscar Alberto Velásquez Uribe
Cardiovascular Surgeon

Dr. Guillermo Enrique Blanco López
Homodynamics

Dr. Juan Andrés Delgado Restrepo
Homodynamics

Dr. Francisco Cuellar Ambrosi
Hematologist

Dra. Margarita Velásquez Lopera
Dermatologist

Dr. Claudia María Navas Ríos
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Dr. Sergio Ortiz Rangel
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

HEMATOPOYETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANT
Known as Bone Marrow Transplant

It is performed in the Hospital since 1976 when the first transplant in Iberia America took place. Now days it is one of the most important therapeutic tools for the treatment of minimum residual illness in patients with acute and chronic leukemia, lymphomas, breast cancer and other tumors.

The HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO SAN VICENTE DE PAUL and the group of bone marrow transplants, composed of doctors specialists in Hematology and Oncology have, just as the other transplant groups in permanent way, all the diagnostic aids required and a Blood Bank in which to realize the required treatments to the blood that is going to be used.

For these transplants the HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO SAN VICENTE DE PAUL and the Universidad de Antioquia work jointly with the New York Blood Bank. This year approximately 25 transplants are being carried out.

MEDICAL TEAM
Hematologists
Dr. Francisco Cuellar Ambrosi
Dra. Fabiola Vizcarra Reyes
Dr. José Domingo Torres Hernández

Intensives Pediatricians
Dr. Augusto Quevedo Vélez
Dr. José Ignacio Duque Martelo

Dermatologist and Immunologist
Dra. Margarita Velásquez Lopera

THIN INTESTINE AND MULTIVISERAL TRANSPLANT
It has been implemented as a therapeutic option for patients with intestinal failure syndrome (short intestine syndrome and problems related to poor absorption of nutrients). Only the thin intestine can be transplanted or combined with other organs such as stomach, duodenum, liver and pancreas.

As therapeutic option for this type of patients it has been approved worldwide since the decade of the 90 s and in Colombia the Hospital carried out the first transplant in 2004.

MEDICAL TEAM
Dr. Alvaro Velásquez Ospina
Vascular and Transplant Surgeon

Dr. Jorge Iván Gutiérrez Montoya
Abdominal Transplant Surgeon

Dr. Germán Alfonso Lenis Duque
Cirujano Vascular y de Trasplates
Dr. Luis Gonzalo Guevara Casallas

Dr. Luis Gonzalo Guevara Casallas
Internista – Gastroenterólogo
Hepatólogo Clínico y de Trasplantes

CONTÁCTENOS:
mercadeo@elhospital.org.co
trasplantes2@elhospital.org.co
elhospital@elhospital.org.co

TRASPLANTE DE LARINGE Y TRAQUEA
El Hospital realizó el segundo trasplante de laringe en el mundo y los primeros trasplantes de tráquea. También practica con éxito los trasplantes simultáneos de laringe y tráquea. Para ello se han utilizado nuevas técnicas que permiten que los pacientes recuperen rápidamente las funciones de estos órganos.

Los trasplantes de laringe y tráquea se realizan en pacientes con traumas complejos, estenosis compleja sin posibilidad de recuperación funcional con otro tipo de cirugía, tumores benignos gigantes de laringe y quemaduras de la vía aérea.

El Grupo de trasplante de laringe está compuesto por especialistas en:
Cirugía de cuello
Cirugía cardiovascular
Microcirugía
Otorrinolaringología
Especialistas en áreas de soporte: inmunología, patología, radioterapia, neumología, nefrología, psiquiatría.

Grupo de apoyo compuesto por: foniatría, enfermería, nutrición y trabajo social; también el soporte de todas las áreas de apoyo diagnóstico y terapéutico de un Hospital de alta complejidad como lo es el San Vicente de Paúl.

EQUIPO MEDICO
Dr. Luis Fernando Tintinago Londoño
Cirujano Cabeza y Cuello

Dr. Byron James López Tirado
Otorrinolaringólogo

Dr. Alfonso White Burgos
Otorrinolaringólogo

Dr. Félix Mauricio Corrales Santa
Cirujano Vascular

Dr. Fidel Antonio Cano Restrepo
Cirujano Vascular

Dr. Fernando León Alzate Colorado
Anestesiólogo

Dr. Elmer Gaviria Rivera
Anestesiólogo

Dra. Clara Marlene Casas Ruiz
Fonoaudióloga

Dra. Ana Catalina Vanegas Arias
Neumóloga

Dr. Héctor José Ortega Jaramillo
Neumólogo

CONTÁCTENOS:
elhospital@elhospital.org.co
mercadeo@elhospital.org.co