The General Surgery Research group develops research activities in the field of Surgery, including basic, clinical, surgical and translational aspects related to the quality of care inits different areas of interest, as well as in the therapeutic procedures to address them. It performs clinical trials, surgical device registries, robotic surgeries and contributes to the development of national and international clinical guidelines. The group is focused in several topics related to the fields of Abdominal Wall Surgery and Biomaterials, Colorectal Surgery and Proctology, General Endocrine, Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery, Esophagogastric Surgery, and Thoracic Surgery. It includes clinical surgeons who make up the care teams of the various clinical lines, two basic researchers, and a wet lab dedicated to the study of the extracellular matrix, inflammation and biomaterials integration.
Group Leader
Manuel Armengol Carrasco
Principal Investigator (PI)
Enric Caubet Busquet, Eloi Espin Basany, Ramon Vilallonga Puy, Manuel Armengol Carrasco, Gianluca Pellino, Alejandro Solis Peña
Researchers
Maria Antonia Arbós Via, Maria Teresa Quiles Pérez, Oscar González López, Amador García Ruiz de Gordejuela, Marc Martí Gallostra, Jose Luis Sánchez García, Francesc Vallribera Valls, Miquel Kraft Carre, Franco Marinello, Manuel López Cano, Silvina Bergamini, Maria Pilar Martínez López, Alberto Jauregui Abularach, Laura Maria Romero Vielva, Íñigo Royo Crespo, Fernando Ascanio Gosling, Joel Rosado Rodríguez, Nivardo Rodríguez Conde, Sandra Castro Boix, Jordi Sabadell García, Amaia Gantxegi Medina
PhD Students
Leire Sanchez Corujo, Mireia Verdaguer Tremolosa, Victor Rodrigues Gonçalves, Montse Adell Trape, Piero Alberti Delgado, Arturo Ruth Blanco Colino, Mar Dalmau Romero, Carlos Petrola Chacón, Arturo Cirera de Tudela, Meritxell Pera Ferreruela, Esther Gil Barionuevo, Maria Jose Gomez Jurado, Miriam Moratal Cloquell
Lab Technicians
Bella Fernández Vaz
90
PUBLICATIONS
473
IMPACT FACTOR
5.26
AVERAGE IMPACT FACTOR
SELECTED ARTICLES
Marinello FG, Jimenez LM, Talavera E, Fraccalvieri D, Alberti P, Ostiz F, Frago R, Blanco A, Pellino G, Espin-Basany E
Percutaneous tibial nerve stimulation in patients with severe low anterior resection syndrome: randomized clinical trial.
Br J Surg. 2021 Apr 30;108(4):380-387
DOI: doi: 10.1093/bjs/znaa171
IF: 6.939
Montoya P, Bello I, Ascanio F, Romero L, Perez J, Rosado J, Sanchez L, Sacanell J, Ribas M, Berastegui C, Deu M, Jauregui A
Montoya P, Bello I, Ascanio F, Ro2. Graft reduction surgery is associated with poorer outcome after lung transplantation: a single-centre propensity score-matched analysis
Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2021 Dec 1;60(6):1308-1315
DOI: doi: 10.1093/ejcts/ezab234.
IF: 4.191
Sensi B, Khan J, Warusavitarne J, Nardi A, Spinelli A, Zaghiyan K, Panis Y, Sampietro G, Fichera A, Garcia-Granero E, Espin-Basany E, Konishi T, Siragusa L, Stefan S, Bellato V, Carvello M, Adams E, Frontali A, Artigue M, Frasson M, Marti-Gallostra M, Pellino G, Sica GS
Long-term oncological outcome of segmental versus extended colectomy for colorectal cancer in Crohn’s disease: results from an international multicentre study
DOI: doi: 10.1093/ecco-jcc/jjab215
IF: 9.071
Beisani M, Sabench Pereferrer F, Vilallonga R, Gonzalez Lopez O, Molina Lopez A, Del Castillo Dejardi, Garcia Ruiz de Gorde, Fort Lopez-Barajas J, Armengol Carrasco M
Seeking an initial weight independent metric in a mediterranean cohort of gastric bypass patients: % awl revisted
Obes Surg. 2021 Apr;31(4):1524-1532.
DOI: doi: 410.1007/s11695-020-05154
IF: 3.603
Profilaxis antibiótica oral + parenteral en cirugía colónica con preparación mecànica vs sin preparación mecánica: ensayo clínico prospectivo, randomizado, controlado y multicéntrico.
Principal Investigator: Espín Basany, Eloy
Agency: Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Funding: 32,670 €
Period: 2021 - 2023
Interacción de biomateriales y fibroblastos disfuncionales de tejidos humanos comprometidos. Tratamientos superficiales de polímeros actuales utilizados en la reparación de tejidos blandos.
Principal Investigator: Armengol Carrasco, Manuel
Agency: Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Funding: 116,765 €
Period: 2018 - 2022
ORALEV2
Principal Investigator: Solis Peña, Alejandro
Agency: Asociación Española de Cirujanos
Funding: 10,000 €
Period: 2021-2023
Alteraciones biomoleculares en la matriz extracelular como herramienta para establecer nuevos perfiles de pacientes y predicción de respuesta a cirugía bariátrica. Estudio en humanos y ratas
Principal Investigator: Caubet Busquet, Enric
Agency: Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Funding: 122,815 €
Period: 2018-2022
Drenaje pélvico tras resección de cáncer de recto medio-bajo: ensayo clínico aleatorizado. NCT04573621 Estudio GECO1
Principal Investigator: Gianluca Pellino
Agency: Asociación Española de Coloproctología (AECP)
Funding: 6,000€
Period: 2021-2022
