Timeline panel will be at the entity’s headquarters in Rio de Janeiro

 

To celebrate the Cardiologist’s Day and the 77^th anniversary of the Brazilian Society of Cardiology (SBC), this Friday, August 14^th, SBC puts up a timeline panel with the scientific milestones of Brazilian cardiology at its headquarters in Rio de Janeiro.

The timeline shows the personalities and great achievements of cardiology in Brazil and was produced by the current board, former directors and active members of SBC.

Marcelo Queiroga says that all of the facts shown in the timeline of scientific milestones of cardiology are relevant and need to be praised to show the importance of cardiology in the national scenario of health and science.

Below is the timeline of scientific milestones of Brazilian cardiology:

 

1898 — An unprecedented study on Diseases of the Heart and Great Arteries, by Martins Costa and Carlos Alvarenga, followed by the Basics of Cardiology, by Osvaldo de Oliveira.

1909 — Identification of Chagas’ disease by Carlos Chagas, who identified the pathological agent (Trypanosoma cruzi), the form of transmission and the clinical picture of the disease.

1930 — Foundation of Instituto Municipal de Cardiologia and first electrocardiography course at Santa Casa de Misericórdia in São Paulo by Dante Pazzanese.

1938 — 1^st Brazilian Symposium on Coronary Artery Disease, held at the Society of Medicine and Surgery of Rio de Janeiro, coordinated by Edgard Magalhães Gomes.

1941 — 1^st Annual Cardiology Course, held by the Cardiology Service of Hospital Municipal de São Paulo. Coordinated by: Dante Pazzanese.

1941 — Creation of the Cardiovascular Disease Assistance Service. Director: Genival Soares Londres (current IECAC – Instituto Estadual de Cardiologia Aloysio de Castro).

1942 — Electrocardiography course given by Frank Wilson at Hospital Municipal de São Paulo.

1943 – Foundation of the Brazilian Society of Cardiology (SBC) on August 14^th. Participants of the 3^rd Course of the Cardiology Service at Hospital Municipal de São Paulo, by Dante Pazzanese, founded SBC. The founding members included: Dante Pazzanese (president, SP), Alcides Ayrosa (vice president, SP), José Proença Pinto de Moura (secretary general, SP), Osvaldo Faber (deputy secretary, SP), Quintiliano H. Mesquita (treasurer, PB) and Leovigildo Mendonça de Barros (journal director, MG).

1944 — First annual meeting of the Brazilian Society of Cardiology, on November 12^th, organized by José Proença Pinto de Moura.

1948 — Publication of the 1^st volume of the official journal of SBC — Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia, with Jairo de Almeida Ramos as editor, becoming the most important cardiology journal in South America.

1948 — Maurício Rocha e Silva discovered and isolated the active ingredient from the pit viper Bothrops jararaca.

1958 — 1^st publication describing the mechanism of puncture and slow conduction through the AV junction, by Antonio Paes de Carvalho (RJ), Brian F. Hoffman (New York) and Paul F. Cranefield (New York).

1959 — First chair of cardiology in the country, taken by Aarão Burlamaque Benchimol through competitive examination at Faculdade de Ciências Médicas da Universidade do Estado da Guanabara.

1960 — 6^th Inter-American Conference of Cardiology of Rio de Janeiro, promoted by Edgard Magalhães Gomes, the first Brazilian president to lead an international cardiology event.

1963 — Researcher Sérgio Henrique Ferreira discovered the bradykinin-potentiating factor, a peptide extracted from the Bothrops jararaca venom that led to the development of a drug used to treat high blood pressure and heart failure.

1966 — The first coronary cineangiography was performed in Brazil by José Eduardo Mores Rego Sousa (SP), followed by Siguemituzo Arie (SP), Stans Murad Neto (RJ), Pierre Labrunie (RJ), Carlos Gottschall, spreading the technique in Brazil.

1968 — First heart transplant was performed at Hospital das Clínicas de São Paulo, by Euryclides Zerbini (17^th heart transplant performed in the world).

1968 — Creation of the title of Specialist in Cardiology by the Brazilian Society of Cardiology and later regulated by the Brazilian Medical Association (AMB) and the Federal Council of Medicine (CFM) through CFM Resolution 1286/89.

1971 — First mechanical recanalization of coronary artery in myocardial infarction by catheterization documented worldwide, performed in São Paulo, by Norberto Galiano.

1974 — Echocardiography is introduced in Brazil by Nelson Souza e Silva and is further disseminated by Fernando Morcerf, Rubens Thevenard, Jonal Talberg and Jorge Moll, in Rio de Janeiro; Juarez Ortiz and Alfonso Barbato, in São Paulo; Fernando Santos, in Belo Horizonte; Iran Castro, in Porto Alegre; and Paulo Brindeiro, in Recife.

1975 — Full transposition of the great arteries with aorta replacement by the pulmonary artery, known worldwide as “Jatene Surgery”, published by Adib Jatene and his team.

1979 — First coronary angioplasty performed in South America by Costantino Costantini, in Curitiba.

1982 — 1^st Brazilian publication to describe the “endocardial origin” of arrhythmia. At the end of the 1970s, at Instituto do Coração — Incor, Eduardo Sosa (SP) and Miguel Barbero (SP) started a surgical ablation program based on electrophysiological mapping. This discovery was a milestone in the ablative treatment of sustained ventricular tachycardia in Chagas’ heart disease.

1982 — Rafael Leite Luna was the first Brazilian cardiologist to join the board of the International Federation of Cardiology, serving as representative of the American Cardiology Foundations.

1992 — Setup of the National Cardiovascular Intervention Center — CENIC, one of the world’s largest database of cardiological intervention, managed by Amanda Guerra de Moraes Rego Sousa.

1993 — Creation of the first SBC consensus: National Consensus on Severe Heart Disease.

1995 — Introduction of epicardial ablation, performed at Incor, by Eduardo Sosa.

1995 — Information technology is incorporated in SBC, under the management of Iran Castro (1995/1997).

1998 — The 13^th World Congress of Cardiology is held for the first time in Brazil, in Rio de Janeiro, chaired by Mário Maranhão, with Ayrton Pires Brandão as Chairman, and Rafael Leite Luna, President of SBC.

2000 — Issues of Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia, dating back to 1948, are digitalized in the administration of Gilson Soares Feitosa (1999/2001).

2001 — First publication to describe the control of coronary restenosis by drug-eluting stent, by José Eduardo Moraes Rego Sousa, at Instituto Dante Pazzanese.

2001 — First Brazilian president of the World Heart Federation, Mário Maranhão.

2001 — Prof. Rubens Maciel continuing education grant offered by SBC to support cardiology professionals for greater individual qualification and return to medical practice through Continuing Medical Education, from 2001 to 2005.

2008 — First joint session in the American College of Cardiology Congress.

2009 — Creation of the Brazilian Chapter of the ACC, coordinated by Antônio Carlos Palandri Chagas.

2020 — Cardiovascular diseases affect more than 14 million Brazilians and are responsible for more than 380,000 deaths every year. SBC has worked hard on promotion and prevention, dissemination of medical education and the qualification of specialists to manage heart diseases in Brazil.