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As René Favaloro changed the medicine

René Favaloro, an Argentine cardiac surgeon was. He led in may 1967, the first successful Bypass surgery.

René Gerónimo Favaloro, an Argentine cardiac surgeon was. On his birthday today, he would have been 96 years old. The doctors had carried out in the year 1967 in the case of a 57-Year-old, the first successful Bypass surgery. His findings, save today the lives of many people.

Under his name Favaloro was founded by a cardiac-surgical Foundation. Due to the economic crisis in 1998, indebted to the physicians, and he himself, shortly afterwards, on 29. July 2000, the life took.

A Doodle for René Favaloro

Asteroid to René Favaloro named

The surgeon was 77 years old. His wife, Maria A. Delgado passed away several years before him. Children they had. In 2006 an Asteroid was named after him. Today, his birthday, the physician is honored by Google.

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