José Manuel Rivero Carvallo (1 April 1905,
Tehuacán
Tehuacán () is the second largest city in the Mexican state of Puebla, nestled in the southeast of the valley of Tehuacán, bordering the states of Oaxaca and Veracruz. The 2010 census reported a population of 248,716 in the city and 274,906 i ...
– 15 February 1993) was a Mexican
cardiologist
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remembered for describing
Carvallo's sign.
Biography
José Carvallo was born in
Tehuacán
Tehuacán () is the second largest city in the Mexican state of Puebla, nestled in the southeast of the valley of Tehuacán, bordering the states of Oaxaca and Veracruz. The 2010 census reported a population of 248,716 in the city and 274,906 i ...
, in the Mexican state of
Puebla
Puebla, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Puebla, is one of the 31 states that, along with Mexico City, comprise the Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into 217 municipalities and its capital is Puebla City. Part of east-centr ...
, in 1905. He studied initially at the
Meritorious Autonomous University of Puebla
The Meritorious Autonomous University of Puebla () (BUAP) is the oldest and largest university in Puebla, Mexico. Founded on 15 April 1578 as Colegio del Espíritu Santo, the school was sponsored by the Society of Jesus during most of the Spanis ...
, then continued his studies in
Paris
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with a scholarship granted by the French government, gaining his doctorate in 1932. He returned to Mexico in 1934 to practice cardiology. In 1944, he was a founding member of the National Institute of Cardiology of Mexico under
Ignacio Chávez Sánchez. He described the sign for which he is remembered in 1946.
[Rivero-Carvallo JM. Signo para el diagnóstico de las insuficiencias tricuspideas. ''Archivos del Instituto de cardiologia de Mexico'', 1946, 16: 531.]
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References
1905 births
1993 deaths
Mexican cardiologists
20th-century Mexican physicians
People from Tehuacán
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