Raquel Garcia Roca, M.D.

Associate Professor, Surgery

Language/s: Spanish, Catalan

Education

Residency:

University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital General Surgery

Fellowships:

University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital Transplant Surgery
University of Minnesota Hospital and Clinics Transplant Surgery

Publications/Research Listings

Raquel Garcia Roca Robotic Assisted Living Donor Nephrectomies: A Safe Alternative to Laparoscopic Technique for Kidney Transplant Donation. Annals of Surgery ; Mar 1(3) 591-595

Lopez-Soler, RI; Garcia-Roca, R; Lee, DD Disparities in living donation. Current Opinion in Organ Transplantation ;

Yoo, J; Gunsteen, C; Patel, S; Clevy-Schneller, T; Nand, S; Jain, D; Garcia-Roca, R; Desai, A; Akkina, S Kidney Transplantation for Erdheim-Chester Disease. Case reports in transplantation ; 2020

Spaggiari, M; Garcia-Roca, R; Tulla, KA; Okoye, OT; Di Bella, C; Oberholzer, J; Jeon, H; Tzvetanov, IG; Benedetti, E Robotic Assisted Living Donor Nephrectomies: A Safe Alternative to Laparoscopic Technique for Kidney Transplant Donation. Annals of Surgery ;

Garcia-Roca, R; Garcia-Aroz, S; Tzvetanov, I; Jeon, H; Oberholzer, J; Benedetti, E Single Center Experience With Robotic Kidney Transplantation for Recipients With BMI of 40 kg/m2 Or Greater: A Comparison With the UNOS Registry. Transplantation ; 101 1

Garcia-Roca, R; Garcia-Aroz, S; Tzvetanov, IG; Giulianotti, PC; Campara, M; Oberholzer, J; Benedetti, E Simultaneous Living Donor Kidney and Parathyroid Allotransplantation: First Case Report and Review of Literature. Transplantation ; 100 6

Garcia-Roca, R; Tzvetanov, IG; Jeon, H; Hetterman, E; Oberholzer, J; Benedetti, E Successful living donor intestinal transplantation in cross-match positive recipients: Initial experience. World journal of gastrointestinal surgery ; 8 1

Gonzalez-Heredia, R; Garcia-Roca, R; Benedetti, E Hand-assisted robotic right donor nephrectomy in patient with total situs inversus: A case report. International journal of surgery case reports ; 23

Raquel Garcia Roca The application of indocyanine green to evaluate duodenal perfusion in pancreas transplantation. American Journal of Transplantation ; 14(1) Jan 226-8

Raquel Garcia Roca High rate of unemployment after kidney transplantation: analysis of the United network for organ sharing database. Transplantation proceedings ; 5 Jun 46 1290-4

Raquel Garcia Roca Multiple Aspergillus brain abscesses after liver transplantation. Transplantation ; Jun 27;97(12) 72-3

Khan, A; Park, P; Oberholzer, J; Tzvetanov, I; Garcia Roca, R; Gaba, RC; Benedetti, E; Jeon, H Concurrent hepatic artery and portal vein thrombosis after orthotopic liver transplantation with preserved allografts. Case reports in transplantation ; 2014

Qi, M; Kinzer, K; Danielson, KK; Martellotto, J; Barbaro, B; Wang, Y; Bui, JT; Gaba, RC; Knuttinen, G; Garcia-Roca, R; Tzvetanov, I; Heitman, A; Davis, M; McGarrigle, JJ; Benedetti, E; Oberholzer, J Five-year follow-up of patients with type 1 diabetes transplanted with allogeneic islets: the UIC experience. Acta diabetologica ; 51 5

Raquel Garcia Roca [The biliary complications in live donor liver transplant do not affect the long-term results] CIRUGIA ESPANOLA ; 91(1) Jan 17-24

Raquel Garcia Roca Minimally invasive robotic kidney transplantation for obese patients previously denied access to transplantation. American Journal of Transplantation ; 13(3) Mar 721-8

Raquel Garcia Roca Cerebellar abscess caused by Listeria monocytogenes in a liver transplant patient. Transplant Infectious Disease ; 15(6) Dec

Tzvetanov, I; Bejarano-Pineda, L; Giulianotti, PC; Jeon, H; Garcia-Roca, R; Bianco, F; Oberholzer, J; Benedetti, E State of the art of robotic surgery in organ transplantation. World journal of surgery ; 37 12

Tzvetanov, I; Giulianotti, PC; Bejarano-Pineda, L; Jeon, H; Garcia-Roca, R; Bianco, F; Oberholzer, J; Benedetti, E Robotic-assisted kidney transplantation. The Surgical clinics of North America ; 93 6

Raquel Garcia Roca Preservation of pancreas graft function after complete venous thrombosis: report of four cases treated conservatively. Transplantation ; 93(2) Jan 27 214-8

Raquel Garcia Roca Transplantation ; 93(2) Jan 27 214-8

Raquel Garcia Roca Pancreatic islet cell transplantation: an update for interventional radiologists. Journal of vascular and interventional radiology : JVIR ; 23(5) May 583-94

Raquel Garcia Roca Renal artery aneurysm in robotic donor nephrectomy: a case report Experimental & Clinical Transplantation: Official Journal of the Middle East Society for Organ Transplantation ; 10(3) Jun 293-5

Raquel Garcia Roca Organ donor found to have von Hippel-Lindau disease: case report. Transplantation proceedings ; 43(5) Jun 1438-40

Raquel Garcia Roca Orthotopic placement of a segmental pancreas graft for transplant: a case report. Clinical transplantation ; 24(3) May-jun 424-8

Raquel Garcia Roca A prospective evaluation of ultrasonography for the diagnosis of penetrating torso injury. Journal of Trauma ; 56(5) May 935-7

Raquel Garcia Roca [Superior mesenteric artery pseudoaneurysm in a cirrhotic patient: interventional radiologic management]. CIRUGIA ESPANOLA ; 90(6) Jun-Jul 399

Garcia-Roca, Raquel Disparities in living donation Current Opinion in Organ Transplantation ;

Elli, EF; Gonzalez-Heredia, R; Sanchez-Johnsen, L; Patel, N; Garcia-Roca, R; Oberholzer, J Sleeve gastrectomy surgery in obese patients post-organ transplantation. Surgery for obesity and related diseases : official journal of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery ; 12 3