René Favaloro
René Favaloro Gerónimo ( born July 12, 1923 in La Plata, † July 29, 2000 in Buenos Aires ) was an Argentine cardiac surgeon.
The son of a carpenter and a seamstress from the Argentine province worked for ten years in various American institutions, including the Cleveland Clinic, where he specialized in thoracic surgery. He also led in May 1967 at a 51- year-old patient, the first successful bypass surgery on the heart by. This operation is often referred to as the first " coronary artery bypass graft surgery," although it has traded, according to Favaloro the interposition of a venous segment with two end-to- end anastomoses. It was not until the 15th, 1967, also performed bypass surgery was then a " coronary artery " with a vein graft from the aorta to the coronary artery.
Later Favaloro returned to his homeland, where he built a conventional cardiac surgical foundation under his name. Due to occurring in 1998 economic crisis, the Foundation by more than 18 million U.S. dollars, after which the surgeon shot dead at the age of 77 years indebted. His wife Mary A. Delgado had died several years earlier. The marriage remained childless.