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Instituto José Manuel Estrada

Instituto José Manuel Estrada. Subject: English Teacher: Liliana Fasce Pupil: Ramiro Bilardo Year: 1ºc English course: 3° secondary school. Rene Gerónimo Favaloro. He was born on 12 july in 1923 in La Plata Argentina and he died on 29 july in 2000 in Buenos Aires Argentina.

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Instituto José Manuel Estrada

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  1. InstitutoJosé Manuel Estrada • Subject: English • Teacher: Liliana Fasce • Pupil: Ramiro Bilardo • Year: 1ºc • English course: 3° secondary school

  2. Rene Gerónimo Favaloro • He was born on 12 july in 1923 in La Plata Argentina and he died on 29 july in 2000 in Buenos Aires Argentina. • Favaloro was born and raised in ´´ El Mondongo´´ in La Plata with her parents, with a carpenter and a designer

  3. School • He completed his primary school nº45 in La Plata. • Favaloro was admitted in the National School of La Plata After graduating from high school, he was admitted as Medicine student at the National University of La Plata. Primary School nº45 Manuel José de San Martín. The school has monument to Favaloro

  4. University • During his third year, he started attending the Hospital Policlínico San Martín, a medical center that received the most complicated cases from practically all of Buenos Aires province . • He attended procedures carried out by professors José María Mainetti and Federico E.B. Christmann, from whom he learned the simplicity and standardization that he would later apply to cardiovascular surgery.

  5. Reputation • Favalorogotinterested in thedevelopmentson cardiovascular interventions, and developedanenthusiasmforthoracicsurgery. At onevisitto La Plata, he metProfessorMainetti, whopointedhim in thedirection of the Cleveland Clinic.

  6. When he was at Cleveland Clinic, his first worked as a resident and later on as a member of the surgery team, working with Donald B. Effler, head of cardiovascular surgery, F. Mason Sones, Jr., • At the beginning of 1967, Favaloro began to consider the possibility of using the saphenous vein in coronary surgery. He put his ideas in practice for the first time in May of that year. The basic principle was to bypass a diseased (obstructed) segment in a coronary artery in order to deliver blood flow distally.

  7. Favaloro Foundation • In 1971 Favaloro, returned to Argentina with the dream of developing a center of excellence similar to the Cleveland Clinic, that combined medical attention, investigation and education . • Bearing that in mind he founded the Fundación Favaloro in 1975 with other collaborators.

  8. Death • By the year 2000, Argentina was already submerged in an economic and political crisis, and the Favaloro Foundation was US$ 75 million in debt. Favaloro on repeated occasions petitioned the Argentine government to aid the Foundation, but he never received an official response. On July 29 of that year, Favaloro took the decision of committing suicide by shooting himself in the heart.

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  10. THE ENDRAMIRO BILARDO

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