Pedro Carlos Cavadas Rodríguez (born 4 November 1967, in
Valencia
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)
is a Spanish
surgeon
In medicine, a surgeon is a medical doctor who performs surgery. Even though there are different traditions in different times and places, a modern surgeon is a licensed physician and received the same medical training as physicians before spec ...
.
Education
Cavadas graduated as a doctor from the
University of Valencia
The University of Valencia ( ), shortened to UV, is a public research university in Valencia, Spain. It is one of the oldest universities in Spain, and the oldest in the Valencian Community. It is regarded as one of Spain's leading academic i ...
in 1989 with honours, and served as an intern at Hospital La Fe de Valencia, where he specialised in
plastic surgery.
Notable Surgeries
In December 2006, he performed the first double hand transplant on a woman.
In July 2011, he performed a world-first double leg transplant on a 20-year-old male amputee. The double leg transplant took 10 hours to perform due to connecting nerves, blood vessels, muscles, tendons and bone structure. In June 2013, the unnamed patient encountered an unrelated illness which "forced the man to stop taking anti-rejection drugs". His legs were then required to be amputated once again.
References
Spanish surgeons
Living people
1956 births
People from Valencia
University of Valencia alumni
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