Luis Agote

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Luis Agote

Luis Agote (born September 22, 1868 in Buenos Aires , Argentina ; † November 12, 1954 ibid) was an Argentinian internist and hematologist .

Life

Luis Agote improved blood transfusions in 1914 by adding sodium citrate as an anticoagulant

Agote was the son of a politician. He studied at the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires and then at the University of Buenos Aires with a subsequent doctorate in 1893 with a thesis on suppurative hepatitis . A year later he became secretary at the national sanitary authority and in 1895 became head of a leprosy hospital on the island of Martin Garcia . In 1905 he got a professorship for internal medicine and in 1911 founded the "Model Institute for Clinical Medicine" ("Instituto Modelo de Clínica Médica"). The focus of his research was on hematology . On November 9, 1914, in Buenos Aires, he carried out the world's first successful transfer of citrated blood to humans. Earlier that same year, on March 27th, Albert Hustin had observed the anticoagulant properties of sodium citrate. The citrates bind calcium ions in the blood, which are necessary for blood to clot. Sodium citrate is still used today to inhibit blood clotting in citrated blood. In 1910 he became an MP and in 1916 a Senator of Argentina.

Publications (selection)

  • Luis Agote: La peste bubonique dans la république Argentine et au Paraguay. Epidémies de 1899–1900: Report présenté au Département National d'Hygiène . Buenos Aires 1901.
  • Luis Agote: New método graphic para fijar la herencia . Buenos Aires 1911.
  • Luis Agote: ¿Ilusión o realidad? Buenos Aires 1915.

literature

  • Wolfgang U. Eckart , Christoph Gradmann (Hrsg.): Doctors lexicon. From antiquity to the present . 3. Edition. Springer, Heidelberg 2006, ISBN 3-540-29584-4 , pp. 6 (1st edition Munich 1995).
  • R. Vaccarezza: Vida de médicos ilustres. Buenos Aires 1980, pp. 137-146.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Wolfgang U. Eckart , Christoph Gradmann (ed.): Doctors' Lexicon. From antiquity to the present . 3. Edition. Springer, Heidelberg 2006, ISBN 3-540-29584-4 , pp. 6 .
  2. History of blood transfusion - The Institute of Biomedical Science ( en-GB ) Archived from the original on June 24, 2016. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 23, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ibms.org