Extensive interview with Dr. Piñal in the newspapers of Grupo Vocento on the occasion of his toe to hand transplant number 500

The paper media of Grupo Vocento (El Correo, Diario Montañés, Norte de Castilla, Ideal de Granada, La Verdad de Murcia, etc.) devoted an extensive interview to the Spanish surgeon Francisco Piñal last Wednesday. The main reason: his toe to hand transplant number 500, with a success rate of 99%.
Testimonial: “I was told that it was crazy to operate Sudeck’s atrophy but the result has been marvelous”

Felicidad, 47 (Cantabria), cook, suffered a work accident with radius fracture, which led to a diagnose of reflex sympathetic dystrophy or Sudeck’s atrophy: «I was told that it was crazy to operate Sudeck’s dystrophy, but the result has been marvelous»
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.
Media, A3 TV: Dr. Piñal transplants two toes to the hand of a boy who suffered the explosion of a fireworks rocket

Borja, a 13-year-old from Cantabria, lost three fingers of his right hand due to the explosion of a fireworks rocket. Dr Piñal and his team have managed to restore its functionality by transferring two toes of the patient’s feet. toe transplant
Dr Piñal participates in the international panel of speakers of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Indian Society for Surgery of the Hand

Francisco del Piñal was the only Spanish surgeon in the foreign teaching team of the meeting.
The American Society for Surgery of the Hand (ASSH) invites Dr Piñal as international keynote speaker for its 2019 edition

This distinction was announced during this year’s ASSH meeting, held in Boston (USA) from September 13 to 15.
Dr. Piñal, international guest speaker at the congresses of the American and Indian societies for hand surgery

The Spanish surgeon will discuss the latest advances in his areas of specialization in the cities of Boston (USA) and Coimbatore (India). Piñal The 73rd annual meeting of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand (ASSH) will be held in the state capital of Massachusetts from September 13 to 15 at the Hynes Convention […]
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 […]