Euryclides de Jesus Zerbini

Transfixing cardiac injury with perforations in stomach, diaphragm and lung: unusual scenario in penetrating trauma

“…Nevertheless, it was Harken who during World War II, compiled an impressive number of 130 soldiers operated on due to cardiac lesions by shrapnel, with no deaths recorded [ 4 ] . In Brazil, the first successful sutures of a cardiac injury were performed by Brauner in 1927, and Zerbini in 1942, who operated on a 6-year-old boy who was hit by metallic shrapnel in the precordium and suffered an injury in the anterior descending coronary artery, marking the first steps of Brazilian heart surgery [ 5 , 6 ] .…”

2015: Year of transition

“…I insist on being optimistic and believe that the strength of the good citizens, who live in Brazil, will be greater than the crisis and this will hopefully get us back on track. We recall the lesson of our patron, the late Professor Zerbini, whom we all miss so dearly: "Nothing resists the work [ 4 ] ." So we will win!…”

Myocardial revascularization in the XXI century

“…After just one year, in 1968, this procedure for myocardial revascularization was also performed in Brazil by Dr. Zerbini and Adib Jatene rapidly being reproduced by many groups across the country [13,14].…”