Ljubljana University Medical Centre

Timeline

• 1966: Start of construction works on the central building.
• 1975: Ceremonial opening of the Ljubljana UMC.
• 1980: Former Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito dies at the hospital.
• 2006: Ljubljana Medical Centre renames itself into Ljubljana University Medical Centre, emphasising the collaboration of experts of different specialties and its role as a teaching hospital of the nearby medical faculty.
• 2010: The first ever robotic-assisted operation at the femoral vasculature is performed at the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery.
• 2016: Discovery of the first scientific evidence that the Zika virus infects the foetus brain through the infected mother and can cause permanent brain damage and microcephaly.
• 2018: Total nose reconstruction in two stages using only the patient's tissue; the nose was reconstructed on the forearm using a 3D model, following which the nose was placed on the face.
• 2018: Both lungs of a patient simultaneously transplanted for the first time.
• 2018: First auditory brainstem implant.