We have specialists in: thoracic surgery, cardiovascular, heart transplantation and pulmonary, congenital heart disease, vascular, and cardiovascular anesthesiology. We also have a select group of specialized nurses.
The surgery department Hernandez Alberto Villegas was founded in 1971 and that date to now we have operated thousands of patients from all regions of Colombia and several countries. Among our most important achievements is the first heart transplant in the country 1985 and the first lung transplant in Colombia 1997.
We have our own tissue bank for preparing bioprosthetic heart valves and different usage in the art, one of the congenital cardiovascular pathology services most advanced in Colombia and stem cell programs for peripheral vascular disease.
Cardio surgeons Clinic VID are practicing new techniques cardioquirúrgicas: It is Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery, (MICS, for its acronym in English), in which doctors take steps to reduce trauma and speed recovery, using smaller incisions during surgery and special surgical instruments, designed specifically for this type of operation.
Cardiovascular Surgery Specialist Group of our Clinic, insurance benefits and advantages offered by these techniques and trying to be at the forefront of new technologies being developed in the world, they have adequate training in some referral centers in the United States in these new alternatives and have initiated in Medellin carrying out these practices.
The advantages of minimally invasive surgery are:
thoracic surgery:
vascular surgery:
Peripheral Vascular:
Neurosurgery:
General Surgery:
We serve all types of abdominal surgery, correction of elective general diseases and those potentially catastrophic.