The Esophagogastric Surgery Unit is made up of Dr. Montserrat Adell Trapé, Dr. Alexis Luna Aufroy and Dra. Noelia Perez Romero. It has a specialized dedication in the proximal part of the digestive tract, specifically the esophagus, stomach and small intestine excluding the duodenum. It covers malignant pathologies, such as esophageal cancer, gastric cancer, and small bowel tumors, benign pathology, especially focused on the esophageal hiatus, such as gastroesophageal reflux disease and hiatal hernias and an important part of our activity includes bariatric surgery .
The Unit has an absolute orientation towards clinical results and the patient. We have a strict monitoring of clinical outcomes, with monitoring of the adverse effects of our patients for almost twenty years, using this data as feedback for continuous improvement of care.
In the oncological pathology (esophageal and gastric cancer), in which we are one of 5 hospitals in Catalonia considered tertiary and highly complex, the control of results includes careful monitoring of survival and disease-free interval, and the continuous training of the professionals who belong to it with stays in other centers around the world to incorporate the most current and useful techniques in order to improve always the clinical results. The incorporation of the minimally invasive robot-assisted surgery since 2020 it has been an important step forward in both clinical and oncological results.
Finally, the bariatric surgery, within the context of a large multidisciplinary group that covers many different specialties and conditions, constitutes a significant volume of patients who are treated with the same criteria of excellence and strict monitoring as oncology patients.