Adib jatene biography examples

Marisa Cauduro/FolhapressThe biography of cardiovascular surgeon Adib Jatene, 85, who suffered a fatal heart attack on November 14, 2014, represents a collection of landmark achievements in Brazilian experimental medicine and victories in the field of public health. Author of more than 700 scientific works, Jatene directed or performed with his own hands about 20,000 cardiac surgeries—and left behind a number of contributions in the field of myocardial revascularization and surgical correction of congenital heart disease.

In the 1950s, he established a laboratory at the Hospital das Clínicas of the University of São Paulo School of Medicine (FM-USP), precursor of the current Bioengineering Division of the Heart Institute (InCor), where he developed the world’s first artificial heart-lung machine. In 1968, he was the first surgeon in Brazil to perform bypass surgery.

In 1985, he created a method for correcting congenital cardiopathy in infants, transposition Adib Jatene (1929–2014) | Embryo Project Encyclopedia SYBI