Initial mitral comisurotomy in Cuba. Brief historical review

Authors

  • Bárbaro Agustín Armas Pérez Hospital Amalia Simoni
  • Miguel García Emilio Rodríguez Hospital “Manuel Ascunce Domenech”. Camagüey. Cuba
  • Leandro Segura Pujals Hospital “Manuel Ascunce Domenech”. Camagüey. Cuba
  • Miguel García Basulto Hospital “Manuel Ascunce Domenech” Camagüey. Cuba.

Keywords:

mitral stenosis, mitral comisurotomy, valvuloplasty, valvulotomy, national precursor

Abstract

Introduction: the mitral comisurotomy was the first surgical procedure to solve the stenosis of this valve whose cause cuasi exclusively is the rheumatic fever. The surgical variations in the time have been the digital valvulotomy, the mitral comisurotomy, later surge the plastia with percutaneous balon of election actually, further the valvular substitution.  The purpose is to know and honor the pioneers of the country and province, but before we have to make a synthesis of the appearing of these techniques. Historical course in Cuba: with the poor information was difficult to explain the inicial behavior of this surgery in the country, in this case the capital and to know the pioneers and their rol beginning in the two first decades in 1948 and what happened in the decade of 1950 and the emerging in the following years.  It was nothing easy to investigate at this respect; it is suggest the name of doctors that made first surgery in Cuba and the year, also the first in Camaguey, the date and the constitution of the team that made it.  We have no information about the beginning of the procedures in another province. Conclusion: everything show that the first MC was made in Cuba by Dr. Rodriguez Diaz  in 1950, two years after the first in North America and that in Camaguey the Dr. Respall Hidalgo made the first one in a date so early that it is consider a prowess.     

Key words: mitral stenosis, mitral comisurotomy, valvuloplasty, valvulotomy, national precursor

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Author Biographies

Bárbaro Agustín Armas Pérez, Hospital Amalia Simoni

Esp. II Grado Cirugía General

Profesor Auxiliar y Consultante

Miguel García Emilio Rodríguez, Hospital “Manuel Ascunce Domenech”. Camagüey. Cuba

Dr en Ciencias Médicas. Especialista de II Grado en Cirugía General. Máster en Urgencias Médicas. Investigador Auxiliar, Profesor Titular.                                                         

Leandro Segura Pujals, Hospital “Manuel Ascunce Domenech”. Camagüey. Cuba

Especialista de II grado en Cardiología. Máster en Urgencias Médicas. Profesor Auxiliar.

Miguel García Basulto, Hospital “Manuel Ascunce Domenech” Camagüey. Cuba.

Alumno de tercer año de Medicina y Ayudante en Cirugía General. Hospital “Manuel Ascunce Domenech” Camagüey. Cuba.

Published

2016-07-30

How to Cite

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Armas Pérez BA, Emilio Rodríguez MG, Segura Pujals L, García Basulto M. Initial mitral comisurotomy in Cuba. Brief historical review. Rev. cuba. cardiol. cir. cardiovasc. [Internet]. 2016 Jul. 30 [cited 2025 Mar. 13];22(2):74-8. Available from: https://revcardiologia.sld.cu/index.php/revcardiologia/article/view/587

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Apuntes históricos