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Dr. Rafael Llorens receives the XXI Century National Medicine Award for Cardiovascular Surgery

Dr. Rafael Llorens receives the XXI Century National Medicine Award for Cardiovascular Surgery
Posted on 09-05-2019

In 2002, Dr. Llorens led a team of 12 in the first successful intervention in Spain implanting a pig’s aorta in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, replacing the aortic valve and upper part of the aorta and connecting the coronary arteries to the porcine bio-prosthesis.