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Fausto Lopo Patrício de Carvalho (15 May 1890 – 23 May 1970), more commonly known as Fausto Lopo de Carvalho, was a Portuguese
Grand Officer of the 
Grand Officer of the
Commander of the Order of Leopold (Belgium)
* 
Officer of the Legion of Honour (France)
* 
Knight of the Order of Charles III (Spain)
pulmonologist
Pulmonology (, , from Latin ''pulmō, -ōnis'' "lung" and the Greek suffix "study of"), pneumology (, built on Greek πνεύμων "lung") or pneumonology () is a medical specialty that deals with diseases involving the respiratory tract.
specialising in phthisiology
Phthisiology is the care, treatment, and study of tuberculosis of the lung. It is therefore considered a specialisation within the area of pulmonology.
The term derives from the designation by Hippocrates of phthisis (Greek φθίσις) meaning ...
, and the developer of pulmonary angiography in 1931, with Egas Moniz and Almeida Lima.
He was the son of eminent phthisiologist Lopo de Carvalho (founder of the first sanatorium in Portugal, in Guarda), and his wife Leopoldina dos Anjos Patrício de Carvalho. He studied at the University of Coimbra, earning a degree in medicine with the highest possible grade (20 out of a possible 20) in 1916; after completing his medical studies he worked at the Guarda Sanatorium under his father's guidance, where he prepared his thesis for a doctorate, entitled '' Artificial Pneumothorax''. He taught Medical Propaedeutics, first at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Coimbra and later at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon, until 1934, when he was appointed to the newly-created Chair of Chest Diseases.
He was President of the International Union Against Tuberculosis from 1937 to 1939, and also presided over the Portuguese National Assistance for the Tuberculous from 1931 to 1938.
Distinctions
National orders
* Grand Officer of the Order of Saint James of the Sword
The Military Order of Saint James of the Sword ( pt, Ordem Militar de Sant'Iago da Espada) is a Portuguese order of chivalry. Its full name is the Ancient, Most Noble and Enlightened Military Order of Saint James of the Sword, of the Scientifi ...
(7 February 1985)
* Grand Officer of the Order of Public Instruction
The Order of Public Instruction is a Portuguese order of civil merit. Established in 1927, it is conferred upon deserving individuals for "high services rendered to education and teaching."
History
Established in April 1927 as the "Order of Instru ...
(5 October 1931)
Foreign orders
* Commander of the Order of Leopold (Belgium)
* Officer of the Legion of Honour (France)
* Knight of the Order of Charles III (Spain)
References
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