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Isaac Berconsky

Born  1899
Died  1971

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Argentine physician, born in Alexandrov, Russia, November 17, 1899; died 1971.

Biography of Isaac Berconsky

Pedro Cossio and Isaav 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 André Trombeta for information submitted.

Bibliography

    F. Martinez and Isaac Berconsky:
    Aparato respiratorio. Buenos Aires: Ed. Ateneo, 1936.
    Archives of Internal Medicine, Chicago, 1937, 59 (1): 173.
  • Pedro Cossio and Isaac Berconsky:
    Pericarditis aguda benigna. Medicina, Buenos Aires, 1947, 7: 1.

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