General Surgery
General Surgeon, Teknon Medical Centre, Barcelona, Spain.
In 1983 he started his residency at the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona until 1988, and participated in the beginning of the liver transplant program from 1988 until 1996. At that time he trained in open surgery and specifically in HPB (Hepatobiliopancreatic) surgery. In 1990 he joined the surgery service of the Hospital Universitario Mutua Terrassa to develop the HPB surgery unit where they were pioneers in laparoscopic liver surgery in Spain. In 2017 he formed a joint HPB surgery unit between Hospital Universitario Germans Trias i Pujol and Hospital Universitario Mutua de Terrassa with an area of influence of more than one million inhabitants, being a reference hospital for this complex HPB surgery. The Germans Trias i Pujol University Hospital is developing the robotic surgery program as part of the HPB surgery and, on the other hand, a program of extreme liver surgery that allows to treat hopeless patients.
Selected publications from PubMed
Robotic liver resection in minimally invasive expert centers is associated with a very low rate of bile leakage: results from a national multicenter cohort.
López-López V, Navinés-López J, Gómez G, Eshmuminov D, García-Sánchez M, Jiménez I, Sánchez-Esquer I, Maina C, Briceño J, Cugat E, Robles-Campos R
J Robot Surg. 2026 May 27;20(1) doi: 10.1007/s11701-026-03507-1.
The Trunk of Henle and Belcher's Vein: Important Venous Landmarks in Robot-Assisted Pancreatoduodenectomy.
Barzola E, Navinés-López J, Bonomi AM, Gómez-Bravo MÁ, Cugat E, Besselink MG
J Clin Med. 2025 Aug 30;14(17) doi: 10.3390/jcm14176144.
The Brescia internationally validated European guidelines on minimally invasive liver surgery.
Abu Hilal M, Hoogteijling TJ, Edwin B, Dagher I, D'Hondt M, Marques HP, Swijnenburg RJ, Boggi U, Sucandy I, Ferrero A, Marsman H, Troisi RI, Gumbs AA, Aldrighetti LA, Cherqui D, Alseidi A, Croner R, Rotellar F, Scatton O, Al Saati H, Berardi G, Cillo U, Cipriani F, Ciria R, Cugat E, Di Benedetto F, Diaz-Nieto R, Duncan T, Efanov M, Ettore GM, Fondevila C, Fretland AA, Giuliante F, Hagendoorn J, Han HS, Honda G, Lesurtel M, Lodge P, Lopez Ben S, Memeo R, Menon K, Rashidian N, Ratti F, Robles Campos R, Russolillo N, Ruzzenente A, Santoyo J, Schmelzle M, Sgarbura O, Sutcliffe RP, Teh CSC, Vivarelli M, Wakabayashi G, White S, Pearce N, Angelico R, Bannone E, Benedetti Cacciaguerra A, Bozkurt E, Conticchio M, El Adel S, Famularo S, Guerra M, Kuemmerli C, Lopez-Lopez V, Pardo Aranda F, Pilz da Cunha G, Primavesi F, Saeidi S, Sheel ARG, Sijberden JP, Sucameli F, Taliente F, Veronesi T, Ahmad J, Alfieri S, Ausania F, Baiocchi G, Berti S, Besselink MG, Daradkeh S, De Carlis L, Delvecchio A, Dervenis C, Dokmak S, Ferrari C, Kito Fusai G, Geller D, Goh BKP, Guglielmi A, Iannitti D, Jaradat D, Jovine E, Kuo-Hsin C, Liu R, Marudanayagam R, Mocchegiani F, Panaro F, Pinna A, Portolani N, Saleh O, Sallemi C, Serrablo A, Smadi S, Suhool A, Taylor MA, van Gulik TM, Siriwardena AK, Asbun HJ
Br J Surg. 2025 May 31;112(6) doi: 10.1093/bjs/znaf113.
Dragon 1 Protocol Manuscript: Training, Accreditation, Implementation and Safety Evaluation of Portal and Hepatic Vein Embolization (PVE/HVE) to Accelerate Future Liver Remnant (FLR) Hypertrophy.
Korenblik R, Olij B, Aldrighetti LA, Hilal MA, Ahle M, Arslan B, van Baardewijk LJ, Baclija I, Bent C, Bertrand CL, Björnsson B, de Boer MT, de Boer SW, Bokkers RPH, Rinkes IHMB, Breitenstein S, Bruijnen RCG, Bruners P, Büchler MW, Camacho JC, Cappelli A, Carling U, Chan BKY, Chang DH, Choi J, Font JC, Crawford M, Croagh D, Cugat E, Davis R, De Boo DW, De Cobelli F, De Wispelaere JF, van Delden OM, Delle M, Detry O, Díaz-Nieto R, Dili A, Erdmann JI, Fisher O, Fondevila C, Fretland Å, Borobia FG, Gelabert A, Gérard L, Giuliante F, Gobardhan PD, Gómez F, Grünberger T, Grünhagen DJ, Guitart J, Hagendoorn J, Heil J, Heise D, Herrero E, Hess GF, Hoffmann MH, Iezzi R, Imani F, Nguyen J, Jovine E, Kalff JC, Kazemier G, Kingham TP, Kleeff J, Kollmar O, Leclercq WKG, Ben SL, Lucidi V, MacDonald A, Madoff DC, Manekeller S, Martel G, Mehrabi A, Mehrzad H, Meijerink MR, Menon K, Metrakos P, Meyer C, Moelker A, Modi S, Montanari N, Navines J, Neumann UP, Peddu P, Primrose JN, Qu X, Raptis D, Ratti F, Ridouani F, Rogan C, Ronellenfitsch U, Ryan S, Sallemi C, Moragues JS, Sandström P, Sarriá L, Schnitzbauer A, Serenari M, Serrablo A, Smits MLJ, Sparrelid E, Spüntrup E, Stavrou GA, Sutcliffe RP, Tancredi I, Tasse JC, Udupa V, Valenti D, Fundora Y, Vogl TJ, Wang X, White SA, Wohlgemuth WA, Yu D, Zijlstra IAJ, Binkert CA, Bemelmans MHA, van der Leij C, Schadde E, van Dam RM
Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol. 2022 Sep;45(9):1391-1398 doi: 10.1007/s00270-022-03176-1.
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