Mariano Rafael Ezequiel Pompeyo Castex
Torres, Argentine physician (Buenos Aires 10 April 1886 – Buenos Aires 30
June 1968) ACHIEVEMENTS Described hepatic reticular necrosis in prolonged obstruent jaundice Discovered ampullar cicatricial origin of spontaneous non-tuberclous hemopneumothorax Described clinical triad of pneumothorax Described thoracobrachial sore sign of bronchogenic cancer and late postoperative atelectasis Described ischemic pathogeny of giant ampulllar emphysema Discovered the meaning of the splitting of the first cardiac sound in bundle branch block With Pavlovsky & C. Simonetti described a new B hemophilia (1944) With Eduardo Capdehourat developed a new method
of bronchopulmonary therapeutic employing nebulized antibiotics With N. Romano a new method of permanent drain in tuberculous meningitis With Luis Camponovo & Francisco Labour the action of succinic acid as breathing stimulant EPONYMY Castex sign or Castex-Camauer-Bator in post-encephalic parkinsonism Castex purpurae or neurological purpurae Castex murmur (systolic murmur in acute
infarction of myocardium) Atelectatic sign of lungs (Castex-Palacio-Mazzei sign) Castex-Palacio-Mazzei thoracic brachial syndrome HONORS Honorary President, International Society of Internal Medicine Foreign Associate Member, Academie de Medecine de Paris Doctor Honoris Causa, Université de Paris |
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