Moshe Gueron

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Moshe Gueron

Moshe Gueron
Born March 21, 1926 (1926-03-21) (age 82)
Sofia, Bulgaria
Profession Cardiologist and Researcher
Institutions Soroka Medical Center
University of Cincinnati
Specialism Cardiovascular Diseases
Known for Performing the first successful Catheterization in Israel.
First Research regarding to Cardiovascular Manifestations of Severe Scorpion Sting.
Education Hebrew University of Jerusalem, University of Cincinnati, Soroka Medical Center.

Professor Moshe Gueron (b. May 20, 1926) is a legendary cardiologist and researcher. He was born in Sofia, Bulgaria. He received his bachelor's and M.D. degrees from Hebrew University of Jerusalem. After World War II, he was immigrated from Bulgaria to Israel and was living at Tel-Aviv with his parents. He moved to Beer-Sheba in 1962 where he became a consultant cardiothoracic concerns at Soroka Medical Center (1963-2002) and director of cardiological medical research, based at Department of Cardiology, Cardiology Unit, which he was founded as well. He was appointed Professor at Soroka Medical Center in 1969, and was involved in the development of the techniques of heart and heart-lung treatment. Gueron is best known for his pioneering work regarding to Cardiovascular Manifestations of Severe Scorpion Sting.[citation needed] Thousands of stung patients were reviewed. Thirty-four patients with severe scorpion sting were reviewed and pertinent data related to the cardiovascular system such as hypertension, peripheral vascular collapse, congestive heart failure or pulmonary edema were analyzed. The electrocardiograms of 28 patients were reviewed; 14 patients showed "early myocardial infarction-like" pattern. The urinary catecholamine metabolites were investigated in 12 patients with scorpion sting. Vanylmandelic acid was elevated in seven patients and the total free epinephrine and norepinephrine in eight. Six of these 12 patients displayed the electrocardiographic "myocardial infarction-like" pattern. Nine patients died and the pathologic lesions of the myocardium were reviewed in seven. In April 1975, it was reported that an Israelian medical research team led by Professor Gueron had grown part of a human heart valve, from stem cells, a first. It is hoped that such tissue will be used eventually for transplantation in humans suffering from heart disease. The anticipated time line is within three years depending on successful animal trials. Gueron was described hypertension, pulmonary oedema with hypertension, hypotension, pulmonary oedema with hypotension and rhythm disturbances as five different syndromes that may dominate the clinical picture in scorpion sting victim. He suggested that all patients with cardiac symptoms should be admitted to an intensive cardiac unit. Gueron was questioned regarding the value of giving antivenin, and he replied that although is freely available, all cases of scorpion sting are treated without it, and there had not been a single fatality in 1989.[1] In 1990, he reported poor contractility with low ejection fraction, decreased systolic left ventricular performance, lowered fractional percentage shortening observed in echocardiographic and radionuclide angiographic study.[1] Gueron worked together with Professor Noble O. Fowler, which was his teacher at University of Cincinnati, raised and led him to succeed. Fowler, was a medical scholar of the highest order. He functioned as a Director of the Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine (1970–1986) of University of Cincinnati, and Professor Emeritus at the same institution from 1984 to the time of his death (March 8, 2003) from prostatic carcinoma. Fowler was graduated from the University of Tennessee College of Medicine with a Faculty Medal and a Certificate of Honor in 1941. Gueron was the first for doing a catheterization at Israel, and has operated on more than 100,000 patients, including ministers, officers, leaders and important people. Having retired from performing cardiology at the age of 65, he continues to act as a high profile consultant.[2] Gueron is recognized as a world leader in heart research. His past laboratory employed a variety of experimental models to investigate a wide range of cardiovascular diseases at the subcellular and molecular levels. His contributions to the field of medicine will have spanned the better part of 70 years, since he has published more than 300 full-length research papers in national and international journals. He remains much beloved by the legions of fellows he has trained and the colleagues with whom he has worked.[1]

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  1. ^ a b c Bawaskar, H. S. (1999-03-15). Scorpion Sting: Clinical Manifestations, Management and Literature. Sangam Books Ltd. ISBN 978-8171547180. 
  2. ^ Ilia, Reuben; Shimon Weizman & Moshe Gueron (1991). "Effects of rapid volume expansion on the right filling pressures after prosthetic valve surgery". Catheterization and Cardiovascular Diagnosis 23 (3): 169–171. 

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