Pedro Francisco da
Costa Alvarenga

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Born1826
Oeiras, Piauí, Brazil
Died14 July 1883(1883-07-14) (aged 56–57)
Sacramento, Lisbon, Portugal
NationalityPortuguese
Occupation(s)Physician and professor
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Pedro Francisco da Costa Alvarenga (1826 – 14 July 1883) was a Brazilian-born Portuguese physician. He taught Materia Medica at the Lisbon Medical Surgical School and left several works dealing chiefly with cardiology. He was a founder and main editor of the Gazeta Médica de Lisboa.[1]

He became notable for his clinical work during the cholera morbus and yellow fever epidemics in Lisbon in 1856 and 1857, respectively. Alvarenga also introduced the sphygmograph, the first non-intrusive device used to estimate blood pressure, to Portugal.[2]

Alvarenga discovered the double crural murmur, a sign of aortic insufficiency (published in 1855, translated to French in 1856[3]), almost a decade before Duroziez.

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Alvarenga Prize

The Alvarenga Prize (Swedish: Alvarengas pris), named after Alvarenga, is awarded by the Swedish Medical Society.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Silva, Innocencio Francisco da (1862). Diccionario Bibliographico Portuguez [Portuguese Bibliographic Dictionary] (in Portuguese). Vol. VI. Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional. pp. 405–406.
  2. ↑ Dobell, H. (1871). Reports on the Progress of Practical & Scientific Medicine, in Different Parts of the World. Vol. II. London: Longmans, Green, Reader & Dyer. p. 123.
  3. ↑ Alvarenga, Pedro Francisco da Costa (1856). Mémoire sur l'insuffisance des valvules aortiques et considérations générales sur les maladies du cœur (in French). Paris: Chez J.-B. Baillière.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Silva, Innocencio Francisco da (1894). Diccionario Bibliographico Portuguez [Portuguese Bibliographic Dictionary] (in Portuguese). Vol. XVII. Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional. pp. 201–203.
  5. ↑ "Alvarengas pris". Swedish Medical Society (in Swedish). Retrieved 27 October 2022.
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