Javier Arías-Stella, Peruvian pathologist (Lima 02 August 1924 – Lima 25 February 2020)

Authored over 150 publications on general, surgical and gynecological pathology and on the biology and pathology at high altitudes

Described Arias Stella phenomenon, reaction or effect and Arias Stella cells

Atypical changes associated with the presence of chorionic tissue. Arch. Pathol. 58:112-8, 1954 

With Dante Peñaloza presented the concept that sustained hypoxia could induce anatomic narrowing of the pulmonary arteries distinguishing from acute hypoxic vasoconstriction (1962)