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Jose Dario Frota Filho
Jose Dario Frota Filho, M.D., MSc
Bairro Bela Vista
Background
Board Certified - Cardiac & General Surgery - Brazilian Society of Cardiovascular Surgery & Federal Council of Medicine
Coordinator - Residency in Cardiovascular Surgery at Santa Casa de Porto Alegre.
Master of Science - Surgical Therapeutics - Federal University Center for Health Sciences
Active Member of the Ethics Committee of Santa Casa (2,500 doctors / 7 hospitals)
Associated Editor - Official Brazilian Journal of the Cardiovascular Surgery Society.
Westfälisch-Wilhelms Universität at Münster, Germany - Visitor Researcher
Director - Medical Department - Brazilian Ministry of Treasury at Porto Alegre.
Conceição Hospital - former General Surgeon
Medical School - Federal University - State of Ceara - Brazil (M.D. 1975)
Other Interests
Endovascular Aortic Surgery (TEVAR) and Aorta in general
Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) - transapical and transfemoral
Pathophysiology of Heart Disease. Biostatistics and Epidemiology
Minimally Invasive Techniques (mainly valves and OPCAB)
Mitral Valve Reconstruction
Maze Procedure (Cox III) and variants
Left Ventricular Reconstruction (Dor, Jatene, etc)
Small Aortic Root / Annulus (Manouguian procedure & others)
OPCAB - Off-pump Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery
Evidence-based Medicine. Computers - Medical softwares/Databases
Practice Areas
- Cardiac