Paulo Mangabeira Albernaz, Brazilian otorrhinolaringologist (Bagé, Rio Grande do Sul 25 January 1896 – Campinas, São Paulo State 23 April 1982)

ACHIEVEMENTS

Authored over 500 medical and non-medical works

Conceived a new method of corrosive paste applications for palatine amygdalae ablation (1921)

Employed bismuth salts for Plaut-Vincent angina and tropical ulcer. This approach attracted international interest 

O bismuto na angina de Vincent. J. Clinicos 23, 1922

Tratamento simples e practico da úlcera tropical. J. Clinicos 9, 1923

Described the diffuse leishmaniotic polyp of nasal septum or Mangabeira-Albernaz polyp (1924)

Albernaz maneuver

Cephalic nystagmus of position. Rev. Oto-Neuro-Oftal. 6:489-96, 1931

Possibly first reported a maxillary sinusitis of dental etiology

Etiologia dentaria da sinusite maxilar na criança. Clinica Oto-rino-laringologica (Estudos e Observações) p.334, 1933

Described the leishmaniotic rhinophyma (1934)

Novas ideias acerca da patogenia e da terapêutica do rinofima. Anais Otorrinol. 1(1), 1935

Presented a new incidence for radiographic study of ethmoid being a variant of axial incidence

Extra-capsullar tonsillectomy: standardization of technique. Rev. Bras. Otorrinolaringol. 22 (2): 152-63, 1954

Processo simples e prático de anestesia para as injeções endotraqueais. Rev. Otolar. S. Paulo 2(4):279-87, 1934

Soluto concentrado para a anestesia cirúrgica do tímpano. Rev. Otolar. S. Paulo 2(6):494-8, 1934

Eponym of Mangabeira Albernaz anesthesic solution

His son, Pedro Luiz Mangabeira Albernaz, otorrhinolaryngologist (Campinas, São Paulo State 06 June 1932-

Authored over 620 works and 16 books

Performed the world’s first cochlear implant in a malformed cochlea (1982)

Made translabyrinthine operation for vestibular schwannoma, the first operation of this typeperformed outside of United States (1964)

Presented the first colorful image in a otorhinolaryngology journal

Histochemistry of the connective tissue of the cochlea. Laryngoscope 71:1-18, 1961

First report of oblique semi-spontaneous nystagmus in normal patients 

With H.M. Braga, Y.I. Ito, H.C.D. Falsetti, H.H. Caovilfa, N.F. Novo & M.M. Ganança. Nistagmo espontâneo e semi-espontâneo a vecto-eletronistagmografia em indivíduos normais. Braz. J. Otorhinol. 47(2):127-40, 1981

First to describe association between the carbohydrate metabolism disturbances and balance alterations

With Y. Fukuda. Glucose, insulin and inner ear pathology. Acta Otolaryngol. 97:496-501, 1984

DEVELOPED

New semiological methods

A simplified surgical technique for investigate globus pallidus area

An endolymphatic subarachnoid derivation (1967)

A technique of neurootological examination (with Ganança) in 1977

With B.F. Ramos, R.V.R. Cal, C.M. Brock & F. Zuma e Maia. Modified maneuver as a treatment of geotropic lateral canal benign paroxysmal positional vertigo. Intern. Arch. Otorhinolaryn. 25:255-7, 2021

With F. Zuma e Maia, B.F. Ramos, R. Cal & M.C. Schubert. An algorithm for the diagnosis of vestibular, cerebelar and oculomotor diseases using a systematized clinical bedside examination. Cerebellum 19:2020, 2020

With I.C.P. Russo. Um vídeo-teste para avaliação inicial da audição em escolares brasileiros. Acta AWHO 20(1):53-4, 2001

Um novo modelo de vectoeletronistagmografia (1989)

PATENT

With R.F. Bento & S.P. Penteado. Dispositivo eletrônico e digital para cancelamento ativo de ruídos para substituir cabines audiométricas dos exames de audiometria e afins PI1002508-1 A2 (2010)

HONOURS

Honorary Fellow, American Otological Society (1993)