Doctors had a percutaneous drive browser that will reach the heart through a minimally invasive method possible intervention. "It will be mostly used in patients who can not be operated on by traditional methods," explained Dr. Jose Antonio Navia, a prestigious Argentine doctor recognized abroad Surgery Konex prize 2003, he directed a new day Cycle "Trajectories" Guemes Sanatorium Foundation, explaining the evolution of scientific development in recent decades, recent detailed advances in research in the field of Bioengineering and described the great relationship he had with Rene Favaloro in their working years in the sanatorium.
In his presentation, developed in the conference room of the tower of the Guemes Sanatorium, Navia, who currently heads the area of Cardiac Surgery, Hospital Universitario Austral, said doctors and media present working intensely on the Indiana University (USA) with a large group of professionals we call percutaneous drive browser, you will reach the heart through a minimally invasive method possible intervention.
"This method, once we implement it in humans in a not too distant future, it will be mostly used in patients who can not be operated by traditional methods, elderly, diabetics," said the trader.
Navia was active at the beginning of his career in the Guemes Sanatorium, with Dr. Rene Favaloro, whom he said "was a great professional and a pioneer in the world of heart medicine, I have a great memory of him and me I have greatly enriched in those years of work with him. "
The famous doctor was also Head of Cardiovascular Surgery Hospital Italiano, per contest (1990-1999) and president of the Argentina Society of Cardiology. Also present Member of the Board of Directors International Society of Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery and was awarded Konex 2003 for his work in Surgery.
As for his specialty, he said that "the most important in a surgeon to adjust the maximum pre-clinical criteria to determine the best way possible when they should or should not perform the operation," while recommending doctors younger " to integrate and learn all they can to all physicians and locations have the opportunity to be working, and greater respect and value their peers, however young or inexperienced, strengthen the doctor-doctor is essential for the enrichment of Medicine and transmission of experiences. "
Navia gave more than 80 courses and conferences in the country and over 20 abroad and conducted over 100 presentations in Congress in Argentina and the United States, Europe, Asia.
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