Fausto Lopo de Carvalho

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In this Portuguese name, the first or maternal family name is Patrício and the second or paternal family name is Carvalho.
Fausto Lopo de Carvalho

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Born
Fausto Lopo Patrício de Carvalho

(1890-05-15)15 May 1890
Guarda, Portugal
Died23 May 1970(1970-05-23) (aged 80)
Alcântara, Lisbon, Portugal
Alma materUniversity of Coimbra
Known forPulmonary angiography
Spouse(s)
Fernanda de Abreu Caroça
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(m. 1917⁠–⁠1970)​
Scientific career
FieldsPneumophthisiology

Fausto Lopo Patrício de Carvalho GOSE GOIP (15 May 1890 – 23 May 1970), more commonly known as Fausto Lopo de Carvalho, was a Portuguese pulmonologist specialising in phthisiology, and the developer of pulmonary angiography in 1931, with Egas Moniz and .[1]

He was the son of eminent phthisiologist (founder of the first sanatorium in Portugal, in Guarda), and his wife Leopoldina dos Anjos Patrício de Carvalho.[2] He studied at the University of Coimbra, earning a degree in medicine with the highest possible grade (20 out of a possible 20) in 1916; after completing his medical studies he worked at the Guarda Sanatorium under his father's guidance, where he prepared his thesis for a doctorate, entitled Artificial Pneumothorax. He taught Medical Propaedeutics, first at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Coimbra and later at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon, until 1934, when he was appointed to the newly-created Chair of Chest Diseases.[3]

He was President of the International Union Against Tuberculosis from 1937 to 1939, and also presided over the Portuguese National Assistance for the Tuberculous[2] from 1931 to 1938.

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  1. ^ Moniz E, Carvalho L, Lima A (1931). "Angiopneumographie". Presse Med. 39: 996–99.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e Rodrigues, Augusto. "História da Ciência na UC: CARVALHO, Fausto Lopo Patrício de (1890-1970)" (in Portuguese). University of Coimbra. Retrieved 18 February 2021.
  3. ^ "Lopo de Carvalho: Biography". Diseases of the Chest. 38 (5): 576–577. 1960. doi:10.1016/s0096-0217(15)30715-9.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b "Cidadãos Nacionais Agraciados com Ordens Portuguesas". Página Oficial das Ordens Honoríficas Portuguesas. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
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