title: [Vascular surgery and transplantation].
abstract: As Honorary President of the Joint Meeting of Portuguese Society for Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery and the Portuguese Society of Transplantation, the author addressed a conference in which he emphasized the straigth links existing between Vascular Surgery and Organ Transplantation Surgery, and describes his professional course and the historical development of transplantation in its Department and Hospital, as well as in the remaining country, an area in which he was proeminent protagonist and pionner, leading to his nomination to distinguished functions of National Coordinator of Organ Transplantation in Portugal.
authors.forename: Mário Caetano
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Pereira
mesh_terms: D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006761:Hospitals; D006801:Humans; D011174:Portugal; D013043:Specialties, Surgical; D014656:Vascular Surgical Procedures