Luiz Venere Décourt, clinician (Campinas, São Paulo State 07 December 1911 – São Paulo 20 May 2007)
Published 324 papers
With R.G, Ferri, M. Papaleo Neto, S.D. Giannini, G. Spilborghs & T. Tutiya. Serological tests in diagnosis of rheumatic activity. I. Determination of mucoprotein. Arq. Bras. Cardiol. 8(4):361-78, 1955
With R.G. Ferri, T.J.B. Cardoso & T. Tutiya. Isolamento e eletroforese da mucoproteína do soro humano. Rev. Hosp. Clin. 10:389-94, 1955
Elaborated a methodology to recognize the most acute moment of rheumatic fever
With J.L. Faria. J.V. Barbas, T. Fujioka, M.F. Lion & U. Andrade e Silva. Pulmonary schistosomotic arteriovenous fistulas producing a new cyanotic syndrome in Manson’schistosomiasis. Amer. Heart J. 58:556-67, 1959
Developed revascularization technique of right coronary for acute infarction of myocardium
With E.J. Zerbini & R. Macruz. Cirurgia de revascularização no enfarte agudo do miocárdio. Arq. Bras. Cardiol. 23:353-68, 1970
With T. Fujioka, R. Macruz et al. The costobronchogenic angle – a new method for the radiologic evaluation of volumetric changes in the left atrium. Arq. Bras. Cardiol. 28(5):523-35, 1975
First experimental demonstration of coronarian flow phenomenological derivation
With O.M. Gomes, N.L.T.B. Moraes, A.I. Fiorelli, E. Armelin, D. Bittencourt, F. Pileggi, R. Macruz & E.J. Zerbini. Fenomeno de derivação do fluxo coronário: primeira demonstração experimental. Arq. Bras. Cardiol. 32:141, 1979.
Co-authored the biggest series of researches about myocardial muscle bridges and found two types of them (superficial and deep)
With A.G. Ferreira Jr., S. Trotter, B. König Jr, K. Fox & E.G. Olsen. Myocardial bridges: morphological and functional aspects. Brit. J. Heart 66:364-7, 1991
His brother, Luciano Venere Décourt, Brazilian endocrinologist (Campinas, São Paulo State 1914 – São Paulo 1975)
Authored 86 works
Described that phenotypic signs of Turner syndrome were due to absence of nuclear chromatine (1954)
With W.S. Sasso, E. Chiorboli, M.C. Lima and J.M. Fernandes. Sobre o sexo genético na síndrome de Turner. Rev. Assoc. Med. Bras. 1(2):203-6, 1954.