Palavras do Prof. Dr. Domingo M. Braile

Abstract

THE WORDS OF PROFESSOR DR DOMINGO M. BRAILE I he Brazilian cardiovascular surgery has lost, over the last few months, three of its most brilliant members who during decades incessantly worked very hard, to consolidate Brazil as one of the world leaders in our specialty. Professors Hugo Felipozzi, Régis Jucá and Sebastião Rabello left to the spiritual world, saddening us and leaving us poorer. Their example, however, is indelibly registered both on those who had the pleasure of personally knowing them and those from future generations who will learn much from their teachings. This volume of the Brazilian Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery (BJCVS) is dedicated to them. There are brief obituaries that tell a little of each of their lives. This is one manner in which the Brazilian Society of Cardiovascular Surgery (SBCVC), using its journal, can recognize the services rendered by these three great masters. Fortunately, the seed planted by them and other pioneers continues to bear fruit in Brazil, and not only in the area of cardiovascular surgery. The growth of the national scientific production stopped being restricted to only researchers, study centers and publications of the area and it already occupies large spaces in the national media. Recently, the newspaper "Folha de São