(1916 - 1978)
Médico cirujano. Contribuyó al desarrollo de la cirugía experimental y del trasplante de órganos en Cuba. Se dedicó también a los estudios de Cibernética aplicada a la Medicina y gran parte de su esfuerzo lo consagró a la urgente tarea de reformar los hospitales universitarios y al propio Plan de estudios de la Facultad de Medicina.
Biomedical Sciences
1989 | The Atherometric System
Main executives entity:  Higher Institute of Medical Sciences of Havana
Main author: José Emilio Fernández-Brito Rodríguez
Summary: The Atherometric System is a group of methods and procedures, through which a series of independent and strongly related variables are created, and which is the result of reasoning and mathematical and biophysical considerations (rheological, geometric and hemodynamic), with the objective of analyzing qualitatively and quantitatively atherosclerotic lesions of any artery (arterial variables), as well as lesions that, as a consequence from them, are produced in tissues and organs that depend on the irrigation of that vessel (organ-dependent variables).Measuring artery's longitude, total endarterial surface and areas occupied by adipose strias, fibrous and grave plates (complicated and calcified), to which it is also estimated their average height, it is established the group of arterial variables of Atherometric System. It is established another group of variables called organ-dependent, when estimating total volumes as well as fibrosis, necrosis, hemorrhages, total damage and sufficiency volumes (not affected area), which are obtained as a result of the qualitative and quantitative analyses carried out in that organ. It is created, with these two groups of variables, a system that behaves in a suitable way for the study of this disease, since it allows, by means of the correct use of its variables and its different combinations, exploring appropriately the pathomorphologic and physiopathologic alterations of arteries and its dependent organs, affected by atherosclerosis.  For both groups of variables, there are described several indexes that allow estimating in a precise way the severity of atherosclerotic process and its consequences. The systemic approach for the study of these lesions constitutes a novelty on the international scientific level, and it has awakened the interest of prestigious foreign institutions. PERFORMERS:  Higher Institute of Medical Sciences of Havana.
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