CLINICAL-SURGICAL CORRELATIONS
Transplantation
Mr. Editor of BJCVS:
This letter is a formal request for your Journal to publish a comment on my historical article, "Cardiopulmonary and Heart transplantation: 100 years of history and 40 years of existence" (RBCCV/BJCVS 23.1, Jan/Mar 2008), which was written as follows:
Regarding homologous heterotopic heart transplantation (intrathoracic) "in parallel" successfully performed for the first time in a human patient by C. Barnard in Cape Town in 1974 (cited in our Article) - it is important to also report the experimental study on this same subject, performed and published by PhD Professor Otoni Moreira Gomes.
In July 1970, in the Brazilian Journal of Medicine, Prof. Otoni M. Gomes published his study as a "Previous Note". The study was performed in the Aloysio de Castro State Institute of Cardiology in Rio de Janeiro, and was titled "Homologous Heterotopic Heart Transplantation (Intrathoracic)", experimentally performed in dogs.
PhD Professor Otoni M. Gomes's study is also mentioned in the book "Techniques of Cardiovascular Surgery", published by Editora Coração Ltda. of 2007.
Unfortunately, for reasons beyong my control, this innovative study performed in Brazil is not mentioned in my aforementioned article about cardiopulmonary and heart transplantation.
Thank you for your attention.
Yours sincerely.
Dr. Paulo Rodrigues da Silva, Rio de Janeiro/RJ Brazil
Publication Dates
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Publication in this collection
15 Jan 2009 -
Date of issue
Sept 2008
