Ioan Puşcaş (10 July 1932 – 4 April 2015) was a Romanian

gastroenterologist Gastroenterology (from the Greek gastḗr- "belly", -énteron "intestine", and -logía "study of") is the branch of medicine focused on the digestive system and its disorders. The digestive system consists of the gastrointestinal tract, sometime ...

, born in Treznea, Sălaj.(16 September 2007)
Un mare medic: Dr. Ioan Puscas la 75 de ani
, ''Revista Noi, NU!'' In the 1970s, he proposed the use of

carbonic anhydrase The carbonic anhydrases (or carbonate dehydratases) () form a family of enzymes that catalyst, catalyze the interconversion between carbon dioxide and water and the Dissociation (chemistry), dissociated ions of carbonic acid (i.e. bicarbonate a ...

(CA) inhibitor

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to heal

peptic ulcer Peptic ulcer disease is when the inner part of the stomach's gastric mucosa (lining of the stomach), the first part of the small intestine, or sometimes the lower esophagus, gets damaged. An ulcer in the stomach is called a gastric ulcer, while ...

s.(25 November 2010)
Centrul medical al doctorului Ioan Puşcaş va fi închis
''

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'' (in Romanian)Treatment of Gastroduodenal Ulcers with Carbonic Anhydrase Inhibitors
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 429 (June 1984) In 1962, he became a medicine practitioner in

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, then transferred, on request, to the Simleu Silvaniei hospital, where he became an active physician of internal medicine. In 1972 he patented the Ulcosilvanil drug, a drug with a 100% cure rate for

gastric ulcer Peptic ulcer disease is when the inner part of the stomach's gastric mucosa (lining of the stomach), the first part of the small intestine, or sometimes the lower esophagus, gets damaged. An ulcer in the stomach is called a gastric ulcer, while ...

s.Interviu
, Interviu cu Dr. Ioan Pușcaș. In 1976 he did a training course at Bichat Hospital in Paris and in 1977 took specialization course on issues of

endoscopy An endoscopy is a procedure used in medicine to look inside the body. The endoscopy procedure uses an endoscope to examine the interior of a hollow organ or cavity of the body. Unlike many other medical imaging techniques, endoscopes are insert ...

, at the Leiden University Clinic in the Netherlands. Back home, he introduced the digestive endoscopy to the Simleu hospital. In 1980 he was the first Romanian doctor using optical video-endoscopy and introduces the use of electronic video-endoscopy in 1985. In 1987 he was appointed director of the Simleu-Silvaniei Hospital,Spitalul din Șimleu-Silvaniei
, Prof. Dr. Ioan Pușcaș. which now bears his name, and in 1990 became director of the Center for Healthcare Research and. In parallel, he was a professor with the department of internal medicine and gastroenterology at the Medical Faculty of Oradea and led many doctorates in medicine. He won two gold medals for medical breakthroughs and has 42 patents. He published over 600 scientific papers in national and international journals. He has published 17 books, many of them being translated into English, Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese. He is a Doctor Honoris Causa and a member of the United States Academy of Sciences. He practiced medicine at the hospital that bears his name in the Romanian town of

Șimleu Silvaniei Șimleu Silvaniei (; , ) is a town in Sălaj County, Crișana, Romania with a population of 13,948 people (2021 census). It is located near the ancient Dacian fortress Dacidava. Three villages are administered by the town: Bic (''Bükk''), Cehei ...

. He died in the hospital in April 2015, aged 82.

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