Ivo Pitanguy

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Ivo Hélcio Jardim de Campos Pitanguy (born July 5, 1926 in Belo Horizonte , Minas Gerais , Brazil , † August 6, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro ) was a Brazilian doctor and one of the pioneers of plastic surgery .

Life

Ivo Pitanguy grew up as one of five children of the surgeon Antonio de Campos and Marie Staël de Jardim. He studied medicine at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais and the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro . A scholarship enabled him to continue training with John Longacre from Bethesda North Hospital in Cincinnati , Ohio from 1948 to 1949 . During this time he also operated at Marquis Converse in New York . He was the first representative of hand surgery in South America and worked at the Santa Casa de Misericórdia in Rio de Janeiro. From 1950 to 1951 he trained with Marc Iselin in Suresnes , France, who was known for his treatment of wounds in World War II . A further grant from the British Council enabled him to work in London with Harold Gillies and Archibald McIndoe , specialists in skin grafts for burn victims, and in Paris with Marc Iselin, specialist in bone reconstruction.

In 1952 he worked at the Souza Aguiar Hospital and then became a professor at the Pontifíca Universidad Católico in Rio de Janeiro . He made a name for himself in 1961 when he took care of the seriously injured survivors after the Niterói circus fire . In 1963 he founded the private clinic Clínica Ivo Pitanguy named after him in Botafogo . He later handed it over to his daughter Gisela Pitanguy. For the super-rich among his customers, he set up a convalescence clinic on his private island in Rio.

In 1976 he treated the Austrian Formula 1 racing driver Niki Lauda after he suffered severe burns in an accident at the Nürburgring . Other well-known personalities who were among his customers included numerous Brazilian celebrities, the Persian ex-Empress Farah Diba and the Italian actresses Sophia Loren and Gina Lollobrigida .

He has trained around 500 plastic surgeons, authored around 1,800 publications in specialist journals and attended 2000 conferences.

Pitanguy is known as the creator of the Brazilian butt lift (buttock enlargement), in which body fat is transplanted from the hips and stomach to the buttocks. He is considered the creator of the Brazilian plastic surgery industry, in which 65,000 nose reductions, 166,000 breast augmentations and 68,000 buttocks corrections were sold in 2015 despite the economic crisis .

In 1955 he married Marilu Nascimento and had four children with her. On August 5, 2016, he drove in a wheelchair through his district, Gavea with the Olympic flame for the section of the Gávea district . The following day, at the age of 90, he died of complications from a heart attack.

Honors

Fonts

  • Aesthetic Plastic Surgery of Head and Body , Springer, Berlin; Heidelberg; New York 1981, ISBN 0387087060
  • Viver Vale a Pena . Autobiography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.academia.org.br/academicos/ivo-pitanguy (Bio-bibliographic website of the academy, Portuguese)
  2. ↑ Brazilian Plastic Surgeon to the Stars Ivo Pitanguy Dies
  3. ↑ a b c d e Samantha Pearson: Stylist whose scalpel and syringe honed celebrity looks , Obituary, in: Financial Times , August 13, 2016, p. 7
  4. ↑ David Klaubert: The master and the beautiful. faz.net, September 1, 2014, accessed September 1, 2014
  5. ^ Page of the Pitanguy Academy (Brazilian) , accessed September 1, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Pitanguy, Ivo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Campos Pitanguy, Ivo Hélcio Jardim de (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian medic
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Belo Horizonte
DATE OF DEATH August 6, 2016
Place of death Rio de Janeiro