Jefferson Luis Vieira et al. Maria Gyslane Vasconcelos Sobral Viviane Moreira Alves Germana Porto Linhares Almeida … Juliana Rolim Fernandes Laura Leite da Escossia Marinho Glauber Gean Vasconcelos Daniel Francisco de Mendonça Trompieri Glaylton Silva Santos Raissa Marianna Viana Diniz Juliana de Freitas Vasconcelos Sugette Ana Larissa Pedrosa Ximenes Juan Alberto Cosquillo Mejia João David de Souza Neto
The Beginning of Heart Transplantation in Ceará
The first heart transplant in Ceará occurred in the “cyclosporine era” at Hospital Antônio Prudente on February 20, 1993. The team consisted of surgeons José Glauco Lobo Filho (), João Martins de Souza Torres, Francisco Martins de Oliveira, José Maria Furtado Memória Junior, and Haroldo Brasil Barroso, in addition to Dr. Ricardo Lagreca (Natal/RN) as part of the Northeast Program for Heart Transplantation (NE-Tx). João David de Souza () Neto was the clinical cardiologist, and Fátima Sales and Miguel Arraes were the anesthesiologists. At that time, the NE-Tx provided support by sending collaborators with previous experience in the area, hence the valuable contribution of Dr. Lagreca from Natal. The NE-Tx assisted services from Sergipe, Alagoas, Pernambuco, Bahia, Rio Grande do Norte, and Ceará were discontinued after a few years.
In 1997, still at Hospital Antônio Prudente, a team composed of surgeons Juan Alberto Cosquillo Mejía, Valdester Cavalcante Pinto Júnior, Waldemiro Carvalho Júnior, Fernando Antônio de Mesquita and Haroldo Brasil Barroso, and anesthesiologist Rogean Nunes, in addition to cardiologists João David de Souza Neto and Patrícia Lopes de Sousa continued the heart transplant program in Ceará. On April 8, 1998, the same group and the pediatric cardiologists Klébia Castelo Branco and Ricardo Sardenberg were responsible for launching pediatric and neonatal transplantation in the North/Northeast regions.
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