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Quintiliano De Mesquita




He obtained his degree of M.D. in 1939 at the Faculdade de Medicina do Recife , state of Pernambuco . In 1940 he moved to São Paulo where he made his specialization in Cardiology at the Hospital Municipal De São Paulo under the direction of Dr. Dante Pazzanese , staying there as voluntary assistant giving annual Lecture s on Arrythmia s until 1949 . In 1945 he founded and directed the Cardiology Institute of Matarazzo Hospital till 1979 . In 1943 he was one of the founders of the Brazilian Society Of Cardiology . Dr. Mesquita was also appointed as honorary professor at the Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade Federal Da Paraíba .

Among Dr. Mesquita's several pioneer contributions to the medical science, the most important are:

1) A new Electrocardiographic classification of incomplete Branch Block with the discovery of 2 new types of bundle branch block in 1948 {Link without Title}

2) First case of Post-infarction Ventricular Aneurism operated by Charles Bailey in 1954 . Charles P. Bailey in a letter of March 16 1954 accepted the idea offered by Quintiliano H. de Mesquita to perform the Aneurysmectomy in his patient {Link without Title}

3) First case of right ventricular 1981 Ary L. Goldberger agreed that the vectorial theory is more flexible than the cavity potential explanation to Q waves {Link without Title} .

4) The Myogenic Theory of Myocardial Infarction, in 1972 supporting the use of cardiac Glycoside s in Prevention and in Treatment of acute coronary syndromes. Awarded with the Ernst Edens Tradition Prize by the International Society for Infarct Combat, 1975 [http://www.infarctcombat.org/Traditionpreis/photo.html .

5) The confirmation of the Prinzmetal’s Theory of Accelerated Conduction, 1999 {Link without Title}


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