CV Lattes
Secretaria da Saúde (São Paulo - Estado). Fundação Adib Jatene (FAJ). Instituto Dante Pazzanese de Cardiologia (IDPC) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
graduate at Medicina from Fundação Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre (1970) and ph.d. at Cirurgia Cardiovascular from Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo (2003). Has experience in Medicine, focusing on Hearth Surgery, acting on the following subjects: reviewer, cirurgia torácica, fibrosis, lung transplantation and assistência ventricular. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Heart transplantation poses significant opportunities for rehabilitation and survival for patients with heart failure refractory to clinical medical therapy. The main late complication and increasingly important as survival increases is cardiac allograft vasculopathy (VAC) with estimated incidence rate of 10% per year reaching 40-50% in recipients who have completed five years of postoper…
Brazil has contributed for the world development of cardiology, especially in the cardiac surgery field. The improvement of surgical techniques makes possible to perform several successful heart transplantations in Brazil. However, the number of cardiac donors is lower than the number of candidates for heart transplantation. Consequently many patients die waiting for an organ. To suppor…
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