Mário Rigatto, Brazilian cardiopneumologist (Porto Alegre 12 January 1930 – Porto Alegre 17 January 2000)

Authored 380 publications

DEVELOPED METHODS

With D. Martínez, R.P. Low, R.P. Pereira, C.A.M. Gottschall & M.L. Leão. Sistema de arquivo e processamento de provas de função pulmonar por computador. J. Bras. Pneumol. 6(4):162, 1981

With E.O. Andrade, G.R. Rocha & D. Martínez. Método simplificado de detecção precoce de obstrução das vias aéreas em fumantes (1980)

Determination of cardiac output using nitrous oxide in closed circuit. Arq. Bras. Cardiol. 21 Suppl 1:1-21, 1968

Pulmonary recirculation: measurements at rest during exercise by a method which estimates the concentration of the test gas in the mixed venous blood. J. Physiol. 191(2):98-9, 1967

With G.M. Rigatto & A.P. Fishman. Determination of pulmonary capillary blood flow in man. Circ. Res. 9(4):945-62, 1961

With A.P. Fishman. Aluminium decompression chamber and body pletismograph. J. Appl. Physiol. 16:391-2, 1961

Papers in The Lancet

With E.A. Oppenheimer & C.M. Fletcher. Airways obstruction before and after isoprenaline, histamine and presnisolone in patients with chronic obstructive bronchitis. Lancet 1 (7542):552-7, 1968

With E.A.Oppenheimer, S.W. Kuper & D. Shortridge. Cytological examination of the sputum. Lancet 2 (7524):1001-2, 1967

HONOURS

Special Citation Award, American Cancer Society (1987)

Marquis Who’s Who in the World (1971, 1975 e 1999)

Visiting Professor, Hammersmith Hospital (1966 & 1991), Karolinska Institut (1966), McMaster Hospital and Pennsylvannia (1991)

Genus Rigattoptera 1996 (Fossil Neoptera)