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Alvaro Borrero Rengifo
Alvaro José Borrero Rengifo, M.D.
Background
2023 - Present. Division Chief. Cardiovascular Surgeon. Clínica La Sagrada Familia. Armenia, Colombia.
2023 - 2023. Division Chief. Cardiovascular Surgeon. Clínica UROS. Neiva, Colombia.
2019 - 2023. Division Chief. Cardiovascular Surgeon. Clínica Las Américas. Medellín, Colombia.
2019 - 2019. Cardiovascular Surgeon. Centro Médico Imbanaco. Cali, Colombia
2009 - 2019. Cardiovascular Surgeon. Fundación Valle del Lili. Cali, Colombia.
2008. International Society for Heart & Lung Transpantation Membership.
2006 - 2009. Fellowship: Cardiovascular Surgery. Clínica Cardiovascular. Medellín, Colombia.
2002 - 2006. Residency: General Surgery. Universidad Javeriana. Bogotá, Colombia.
Other Interests
Adult Cardiac Surgery
Heart Transplantation
Aortic Surgery
Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery
Coronary Disease
Valvular Disease
Research
PUBLICATIONS AS INVESTIGATION COLLABORATOR
Effects of off-pump and on-pump coronary-artery bypass grafting at 1 year.
Lamy A, Devereaux PJ, Prabhakaran D, Taggart DP
CORONARY Investigators.
N Engl J Med. 2013 Mar 28;368(13):1179-88. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1301228. Epub 2013 Mar 11.
Strategies for multivessel revascularization in patients with diabetes.
Farkouh ME, Domanski M, Sleeper LA, Siami FS
FREEDOM Trial Investigators.
N Engl J Med. 2012 Dec 20;367(25):2375-84. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1211585. Epub 2012 Nov 4.
Off-pump or on-pump coronary-artery bypass grafting at 30 days.
Lamy A, Devereaux PJ, Prabhakaran D, Taggart DP
CORONARY Investigators.
N Engl J Med. 2012 Apr 19;366(16):1489-97. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1200388. Epub 2012 Mar 26.
PUBLICATIONS AS MAIN INVESTIGATOR
Experience and results in surgery of type A aortic dissection during a decade in the Fundación Valle del Lili, Cali, Colombia.
Eduardo J. Echeverry, Harold Gutiérrez, Mauricio E. Bustamante, Alvaro J. Borrero, Eduardo A. Cadavid
REV COLOMB CARDIOL. Vol.20 No.5 Bogotá, September - October 2013.
Errors in health care, pilot study for the design of more secure processes at san Ignacio University Hospital.
Errores en la atención en salud: estudio piloto para el diseño de procesos más seguros en el Hospital Universitario San Ignacio.
Saúl Rugeles, José Félix Castro, Alvaro J. Borrero
REV COLOMB CIR. Vol.19 No.2 Bogotá April - June 2004.
Additional Educational Information
- 2006 - 2009. Fellowship: Cardiovascular Surgery. Clínica Cardio VID. Medellín, Colombia.
- 2002 - 2006. Residency: General Surgery. Universidad Javeriana. Bogotá, Colombia.
- 2000 - 2002. General Physician, Cardiovascular Surgery Assistant. F. Valle del Lili. Cali, Colombia.
- 2000 - 2002. General Physician, Emergency Department. Fundación Valle del Lili. Cali, Colombia.
- 1998 - 1999. Social Service Physician, Cardiovascular Surgery. F. Valle del Lili. Cali, Colombia.
- 1997. Elective student Cardiovascular Surgery. Methodist Hospital, Baylor. Houston, USA.
- 1992 - 1998. Faculty of Medicine. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Bogotá, Colombia.
- 1978 - 1992. School: Colegio Colombo Británico. Cali, Colombia.
Printer-friendlyPractice Areas
- Cardiac
- Minimally Invasive
- Transcatheter
- Cardiac
- Coronary disease
- Electrophysiology/arrhythmia
- Endocarditis
- Extracorporeal circulation
- Heart failure
- Mechanical circulatory assistance
- Valve disease
- Aortic valve disease
- Mitral valve disease
- Tricuspid valve disease
- Heart Transplant
- Great vessels
- Aorta