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OnMarch1,Prof.Dr.EduardoÁlvaroVieirapassedaway. In1971,hewasthefirstorthopedicsandtraumatology resi-dentoftheSorocabaMedicalSchoolofthePontificalCatholic UniversityofSãoPaulo(PUC-SP),ofwhichhebecamea pro-fessor in the same year. He was a pupil of Professor Luiz GustavoWertheimer,becameinterestedinkneesurgeryand conductedextensiveanatomicalstudieson thisjoint,from whichhedefendedhismaster’sdissertation “Anatomofunc-tionalbasisofthekneejoint”andhisdoctoralthesis“Distal insertionsofthe semimembranosus muscle”,bothofthem in1980.Hewasoneofthepioneersofthearthroscopic tech-niqueinBrazilandwasalsooneofthefoundermembersof theBrazilianSocietyofKneeSurgery,in1983.In1985,hewas atraineeintheHughstonClinicwithDr.JackHughstonand
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Dr. James Andrews. In 1995, even though he had already becomeestablishedas ateacher,heagainwent abroad,to France,wherehefollowedactivitiesattheclinicofProfessor HenriDejourandfromwherehebroughtbacknewconcepts fromtheFrenchSchool.
In2001,hesatacompetitiveexaminationforthetitleof titularprofessorandwasapprovedbytheboardofexaminers, whichincludedthelateProf.Dr.JoséLaredoFilhoandProf.Dr. ÉdieBeneditoCaetano.
Hecontributedtowardsthehumanandorthopedictraining ofmanystudentsandorthopedicsresidentsoverthe40years inwhichhewasateacher.
HehadseveralstudiespublishedintheRevistaBrasileirade OrtopediaandonestudypublishedinthejournalArthroscopy, withhissonDr.EduardoLuísCruellsVieira(alsoan orthope-dist)andwithProf.Dr.MoisésCohen.
Ifmedicineingeneralandorthopedicsinparticularwere hisart,thekneejointwashispassion.Heeasilygotcarried awayinexplainingthemechanismofautomaticrotationor ofthescrew,rolling/slidingandinsertionsofthe semimem-branosusorpoplitealmuscle.Moreover,hesaidthattheknee servednotonlytobearweightbutalsotosupplicate.Awayof bringingourselvesclosertoGod.
Hislastwordswerejoelho,rodilla,knee,genou. Dr.Eduardo,restinpeace.
EduardoLuísC.Vieira
E-mail:eduardolvieira@hotmail.com
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