Adib Domingos Jatene is a noted Brazil

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ian physician

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 of Lebanese

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 background, university professor

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, scientist

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 and thoracic surgeon

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, one of the founders of the University of São Paulo Heart Institute and internationally respected as the inventor of the Jatene operation

Jatene procedure

The Jatene procedure, or arterial switch, is an open heart surgical procedure used to correct dextro-transposition of the great arteries ; its development was pioneered by Canadian cardiac surgeon William Mustard and it was named for Brazilian cardiac surgeon Adib Jatene, who was the first to use...

, a technique to correct transposition of the great vessels

Transposition of the great vessels

Transposition of the great vessels is a group of congenital heart defects involving an abnormal spatial arrangement of any of the primary blood vessels: superior and/or inferior vena cavae , pulmonary artery, pulmonary veins, and aorta...

 in the newly-born. He became Secretary of Health of the city of São Paulo

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 and later Minister of Health of Brazil

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 for both the Fernando Collor de Mello

Fernando Collor de Mello

Fernando Affonso Collor de Mello was the 32nd president of Brazil from 1990 to 1992, when he resigned in a failed attempt to stop his trial of impeachment by the Brazilian Senate...

 and Fernando Henrique Cardoso

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 administrations.