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  • Titulo Artículo: Cardiac surgery in Colombia: History, advances, and current perceptions of training
  • Resumen: Early Beginnings in Heart Surgery In Colombia, cardiac surgery, or cardiovascular surgery, is a subspecialty of general surgery apart from general thoracic and vascular surgery. Cardiovascular surgeons in Colombia treat surgical pathologies of the heart and intrathoracic great vessels, and general thoracic surgeons treat pathologies of the pleura, lung, diaphragm, and chest wall. The history of cardiac surgery in Colombia begins with Pompilio Martínez, who performed the country's first cardiac suture for a penetrating heart injury in Bogota in 1914.1 Later, in 1948, American surgeon Dr George Humphreys would visit the country's capital and perform a variety of thoracic procedures, including some minor congenital cardiac surgeries. In 1954, Colombian surgeon Dr. José Félix Patiño, at that time attending Yale, presented a concept to Dr. William Glenn for a superior vena cava–to–right pulmonary artery shunt to bypass a defective right heart. In 1958, Glenn performed this procedure in New Haven, and a year later Patiño performed it in Bogota.2 Also in 1958, Dr Antonio Ramírez reported a series of 47 cardiac procedures performed under superficial hypothermia. In 1966, in Medellin, Drs Alberto Villegas and Mario Montoya began performing the country's first coronary artery bypass surgeries, as well as arrhythmia surgeries. In 1968 in Medellin, Dr Antonio Ramírez performed the first mitral valve replacement using extracorporeal circulatory technology, and later the first aortic arch replacement.3,4 In 1981, Dr Aminta Capasso became the first female cardiovascular surgeon in the country. Table 1 lists historic events in Colombian cardiac surgery.
  • Autores: Eric E Vinck, .
  • Titulo Revista: The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery, .
  • Numero: 6
  • Volumen:159
  • Fecha de publicación: 2020.
  • Base de Datos Bibliográfica: Medline-PubMed , .
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  • Idioma: Inglés
  • Página Inicial: 2347 Página Final: 2352
  • ISBN: 1097-685X