Luciano Endrizzi
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Luciano Endrizzi (b. 1919, Rovereto, Italy; d. 1986, São Paulo, Brazil) was an Italian Brazilian physician and surgeon. who became one of the most respected gynecologists and obstetricians in the country.
Dr. Endrizzi was born in Italy to Henrique Endrizzi, an Italian-Brazilian agricultural engineer specialized in enology and Gelinda Roat, an Austrian from Trento (now Italy). The family moved in 1921 to Brazil, where his father had a brother living as a Catholic priest. In 1947 he started to study Medicine at the Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo in São Paulo.
Dr. Endrizzi became widely known when he accepted a position as Chief Surgeon of the Service of Gynecology at the Maternidade de São Paulo, the largest private maternity of Latin America. He worked there until his death of colon cancer in 1986. In 1964 he published the first known case of surgical correction of vaginal atresia (congenital absence of a vagina) with neovaginoplasty where the patient could deliver two babies in normal parturition.
He published extensively on many subjects in the field. He was also a professor with the Faculdade de Medicina do ABC, in Santo André. His name has been honoured in the Centro de Estudos Luciano Endrizzi at the Maternidade de São Paulo, which received the donation of his private library when he deceased.
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- Endrizzi, L.; Arcuri, A. Agenesis of the vagina with hematometra. Neovaginoplasty followed by two pregnancies at term. Rev Ginecol Obstet (Sao Paulo). 1964 Nov;115:320-5. Portuguese. PMID 14295152
- De Rudge, W.S.; Endrizzi, L. Management of recently infected ectopic pregnancy. Rev Ginecol Obstet (Sao Paulo). 1956 May;50(5):331-40. PMID 13350865
