Hospital Quiron Vitoria made the first radical cystectomy by means of intracorporeal laparoscopic technique in Álava.

Vitoria-Gasteiz, March of 2013.- team of Urology Hospital Quiron Vitoria (formerly clinic La Esperanza), formed by the doctors Aníbal Rincón, Abel Saiz and Alberto Martin-Marquina has successfully completed the first intracorporeal laparoscopic radical cystectomy in Alava, operation consisting in the removal of bladderProstate, seminal vesicle, and lymph nodes and in the posterior Urinary diversion.

The patient he has been radical cystectomy cancer infiltrating bladder with poor prognosis, and this was the best solution for your case ”, indicates Dr. Rincón.

Sometimes chemotherapy and radiotherapy allows the bladder conservation, but it occurs in very specific cases – when tumors are small and in places very determined- however, this not ensures that finally runs out doing the cystectomy ”, explains the specialist.

Thanks to the technical intracorporeal laparoscopic employed in operation (without open surgery), the bleeding has been much lower in the intervention and the postoperative period has been reduced to half time. The prognosis of the patient, who has already been discharged, is very favorable.

Quirón hospital group

Group Quirón hospital has a medical international prestige – the largest sector-box, it is the first in Spain in number of patients and care surface, and manages 45 health centres, more than 2,250 hospital beds, 6,500 linked doctors and 600,000 hospital stays per year. In 2011, Chiron and USP recorded a total of 835.112 attended emergency, 185.268 surgery, 17.223 births, more than 10,000 cycles of assisted reproduction and around 40,000 cancer treatments.

The largest Spain private hospital network has 20 general hospitals in A Coruña, Adeje (Tenerife), Barcelona, Erandio (Vizcaya), Los Barrios (Cádiz), Madrid, Malaga, Marbella, Murcia, Palma de Mallorca, Pozuelo de Alarcón (Madrid), San Sebastian, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Seville, Torrevieja (Alicante), Valencia, Vitoria and Zaragoza; two hospitals in day, at Playa de Muro (Mallorca) and Zaragoza; four monographs centers of assisted reproduction in Bilbao, Murcia, Pamplona and Torrent (Valencia); two ophthalmic centres in La Coruña and Barcelona; a Center for sports medicine in Vitoria; and 16 centres of consultations of various specialties in A Coruña, Ferrol (A Coruña), Fuengirola (Málaga), Lorca (Murcia), Orihuela (Alicante), Santa Pola (Alicante), Sa Pobla (Mallorca), Seville and Torrevieja (Alicante).