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His childhood
He was born and raised in the "El Mondongo" neighborhood of La Plata,
Argentina. Since he was a boy he learned to love football, and
made a fanatic fan of the Gymnastics and Fencing Club La
Silver. René Favaloro was always committed to
the knowledge, thanks in part to his maternal grandmother,
who transmitted his love for nature and emotion
by seeing when the seeds began to bear fruit.
He completed elementary school at school No. 45 located on 68th street and 73rd street -
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Their secondary and university studies
In 1936, he entered the National College of La Plata. To the
finishing high school he entered the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the
National University of La Plata. In the third year began the concurrences to
Polyclinic Hospital and with them his vocation was increased by making contact for the first
time with patients.
The fundamental fact of his professional training was his position as resident in the
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His beginnings as a doctor
In 1949, as soon as he graduated, there was a vacancy for an auxiliary doctor but in the end he was not given the position since it required joining the party
Peronist who ruled the country in those years, which did not admit
He arrived in Jacinto Aráuz in May 1950, soon after his brother, Juan José, joined the clinic.
During the years that both remained there they created a center
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Your trip to the united states
With few resources and an incipient English, he decided to travel to Cleveland.
He worked first as a resident and then as a member of the surgical team, in
collaboration with Drs. Donald B. Effler, chief of cardiovascular surgery, F. Mason
Sones, Jr., in charge of the Cineangiography Laboratory and William L. Proudfit, head of the
Department of Cardiology.
At first most of his work was related to valve disease and
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Coronary bypass
At the beginning of 1967, Favaloro began to think about the possibility of using the vein
saphenous in coronary surgery. He put his ideas into practice for the first time in May
this year. The standardization of this technique, called bypass surgery or
myocardial revascularization, was the fundamental work of his career, which made
its prestige transcended the limits of that country, since the procedure changed
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Your book
In 1970 he published a book called
Surgical Treatment on Coronary Arteriosclerosis, and edited in Spanish with the name
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Creation of the Favaloro Foundation
In 1971 he returned to Argentina with the dream of developing a
excellence similar to that of the Cleveland Clinic, combining medical care,
research and education.
With this objective in mind, he created the Favaloro Foundation in 1975 together with other collaborators.
One of his greatest prides was to have formed more than four hundred and fifty
residents from all over Argentina and Latin America
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More of his creations
In 1980 Favaloro created the Basic Research Laboratory -al which he financed with
own money for a long period - which, at that time, depended on the
Research and Teaching Department of the Favaloro Foundation. With
Later, it became the Research Institute in Basic Sciences of the Institute
University of Biomedical Sciences, which, in turn, gave rise, in August 1998, to the
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Institute of Cardiology and Surgery Cardiovascular of the Favaloro Foundation
In 1992 the Institute of Cardiology and Surgery was inaugurated in Buenos Aires
Cardiovascular of the Favaloro Foundation, They provide services
highly specialized in cardiology, cardiovascular surgery and heart transplantation,
pulmonary, cardiopulmonary, liver, kidney and bone marrow, in addition to other areas.
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His death
July 29, 2000
makes the decision to kill himself with a shot to the heart, I leave a letter of
dismissed with broad criticism of the health system in Argentina. After his death
it was learned that he had sent a letter to President Dr.
Fernando de la Rúa which had never been read and said he was tired
of "being a beggar in his own country" and asked him to help raise funds for
the foundation.