Isaac Berconsky, Russian-born Argentine cardiologist (Alexandrov, Russia 17 November 1899 - 1971)
With Pedro Cossio and Tiburcio Padilla performed the fourth cardiac catheterization in the world and the first in American Continent (1932)
With P. Cossio & T. Padilla. Sondeos del Corazón. Tecnica. Semana Medica 28(2):79-82, 1932.
With P. Cossio. Insuficiência cardíaca inaparente (Nueva entidad fisiopatologica). Rev. Arg. Cardiol. 1, 1934 Non-apparent cardiac insufficience (new physiopathologic entity)
Described Post tachycardia syndrome or Cossio-Berconsky syndrome
Syndrome post-tachycardique (Post tachycardia syndrome). American Heart Journal 33:270, 1947.
Cossio-Berconsky-Gonzalez Sabatié-Vedoya sign. An engorgement of left jugular vein by expansion of aortic crook