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Pedro Cossio
Argentine cardiologist, 1900-1986.
Associated eponyms:
Cossio's syndrome
Congenital heart malformation with atrial septum defect and mitral valve stenosis with pronounced left-right shunt.
Cossio-Berconsky syndrome
The association of congenital interventricular septal defects and (Friedel) Pick’s syndrome.
Cossio-Perianes operation
Ligation of the inferior vena cava in heart disease.
Biography:
Pedro Cossio and Isaac Berconsky, both professors in Buenos Aires, performed the fourth cardiac catheterisation in the world after Werner Forssmann (Germany, 1929), Otto Klein (Prague, 1930) and Jimenez Diaz and Sanchez Cuenca (Spain, 1930) and the first on the American Continent.
We thank Andre Trombeta for information submitted.
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