José Luis Duomarco de Pro, Uruguayan physiologist (Montevideo 27 September 1905 – Montevideo 25 November 1985)

From Spanish parents

Authored works on physical medicine and vascular physiology

Authored over 130 papers and 2 books

Described a new heart law

On the relationship between end systolic volume and ventricular mechanical impulse. A new law of the heart. Acta Physiol. Latinoam. 8, 1958 

With A.C. Esponda & A. Asplando. On a new law of the heart. Ann. Fac. Med. Montevideo 44, 1959

Eponym of Holt-Duomarco effect

WITH RIMINI

Authored the first study about intra-abdominal pressure in human (1947)

Important studies on venous pressure in human

First to show clearly the abdomen behaves as a fluid-filled container with a flexible anterior abdominal wall (1947)

Suggested that venous collapse is a hydrostatic analogy of a waterfall (1954) 

SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY 

With P. Recarte & R. Rimini. Influencia de las presiones abdominal y toracica sobre el retorno venoso en la cava inferior. Rev. Arg. Cardiol. 11:286-95, 1944

With R. Rimini & L.P. Arboleya. Acción de la declivoterapia en algunos enfisematosos disneicos. Rev. Tuberc. Uruguay 14:231, 1946

With R. Rimini. La pressión intraabdominal en el hombre en condiciones normales y patologicas (1947)

With W.H. Dillon & C.J. Wiggers. Comparison of cardiac output by direct method and Hamilton-Remington procedure. Am. J. Physiol. 154:290-6, 1948

With R. Rimini & J.P. Sapriza. Intento de apreciación de la pressión venosa efectiva por medio de La angiocardiografia. Rev. Argent. Cardiol. 17:15, 1950

With R. Rimini, A. Rodríguez, R. Burgos, J.P. Sapriza & G.H. Surraco. Contribution of angiopneumography to some problems of pulmonary physiopathology. Dis. Chest 22:539, 1952

With J.P. Sapriza, R. Rimini & G.H. Surraco. Dos casos de quiste hidático de la aurícula derecha. Diagnostico angiocardiografico. Cura quirurgica. Arch. Urug. Med. Cir. Esp. 44:148, 1954

With R. Rimini. Energy and hydraulic gradients along systemic veins. Am. J. Physiol. 178:215-20, 1954

With R. Rimini & J.P. Migliaro. Intra-esophageal pressure and the local differences in pleural pressure. Acta Physiol. Latinoam. 4:133-140, 1954

With R. Rimini, J.C. Dighiero, J.P. Sapriza & G.H. Surraco. Derivación parcial de la circulación pulmonar per medio de la hyperpresión endobronquial unilateral. Hoja Tisiol. 15:197, 1955   

With R. Rimini, R. Burgos, J.C. Dighiero, J.P. Sapriza & G.H. Surraco. Unilateral positive pressure breathing as a means of partial shift of the pulmonary blood flow. Dis. Chest 31:643-54, 1957

With G.E. Giambruno & A. Correa Durán. The pressure in the different zones of the pericardium. Acta Physiol. Latinoam. 9:267, 1959 

La insuficiencia cardiaca de la estenosis mitral. Sistole 12(34-5):23, 1961

With R. Rimini. Venous pressure of man in space. Aerosp. Med. 41:175, 1970