Dr Bartolomé Beltrán interviews the Spanish surgeon Francisco Piñal in La Sexta’s program «What’s wrong Dr?»
Beltrán and Piñal address various aspects of upper limb surgery such as wrist fractures, reconstructive microsurgery or Sudeck’s syndrome for around half an hour.
Diagnosis reassessment and surgery: healing of a patient with Sudeck’s atrophy
Diana Feijoo, 40, was operated on the wrist last September. Since then she has developed a picture of severe pain, diagnosed as reflex sympathetic dystrophy or Sudeck’s atrophy. The patient, in turn, is polymedicated to try to mitigate symptoms that also include serious mobility difficulties in her left hand, disabling in the personal and work […]
Patient diagnosed with reflex sympathetic dystrophy or Sudeck’s atrophy: healing by means of diagnostic correction and surgery
The patient, Camelia, 46, who works as a cook, suffers from very intense pain, lack of function and numbness in her dominant hand, the left; all diagnosed as reflex sympathetic dystrophy or Sudeck’s atrophy. After several months, she attends the clinic of Dr. Piñal who cures her, after accurately identifying the pathology of origin and […]
Dr Piñal: «There are many patients labeled as sick of reflex sympathetic dystrophy or Sudeck’s dystrophy who actually suffer from a pathology that we haven’t been able to identify»
As a result of his research work, Dr. Piñal believes that after diagnoses of reflex sympathetic dystrophy, we find diagnostic mistakes and lack of knowledge of a hidden pathology. In turn, he has identified that around 20% of these cases can be addressed as neurostenalgies and forms of dynamic compression of the median nerve.
In-depth interview with Dr Piñal in ‘Directivos y empresas’ (‘Directors and Companies’)
‘Directivos y empresas’, a monthly economy magazine aimed at private sector managers and executives, includes an extensive in-depth interview with Dr Piñal, in which he reviews his professional career and the evolution of his medical discipline. The Spanish surgeon responds to questions such as the development of wrist surgery since the nineties, the validity of […]
Dr Piñal presents a comprehensive guide for surgery in distal radius fractures in his new book
‘Atlas of of distal radius fractures’ has a practical approach, based on case studies of very diverse clinical contexts. Published worldwide by the prestigious German specialized publisher, Thieme, it defines, from the detailed analysis of specific cases, a comprehensive guide for the diagnosis, treatment and surgery of this profile of fractures.
Five worrying signs after treatment or operation on a wrist fracture
In several of our previous conversations, Dr Piñal has insisted that a normal wrist is the one we’re not even aware it’s there, so therefore new or persistent sensations can point to the false resolution of a previous pathology or trauma. This is the case of wrist fractures, whose preceding treatment or subsequent surgery can […]
Dr Piñal, guest of honor at the congress of the Taiwan Society for Surgery of the Hand
The meeting will take place this coming May at the Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital
Tendon transfer in case of nerve injury by hand crushing with muscle extrusion
Young male with a picture of nerve injuries from accidental hand crush, caught in a press and in a catastrophic situation. The limb has complete cuts at two levels in the wrist, which slice the nervous, musculotendinous and vascular systems. In turn, loss of muscle by extrusion is present. Tendon transfer The problem A context […]
Dr. Piñal takes part in the 72nd annual meeting of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand in San Francisco
The Spanish surgeon, one of the invited foreign speakers, addressed the latest techniques in reconstructive microsurgery and replantation.