{"id":427,"date":"2015-11-02T13:30:20","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T17:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/altitudeclinic.com\/blog\/?p=427"},"modified":"2015-11-04T21:21:19","modified_gmt":"2015-11-05T01:21:19","slug":"homenaje-gustavo-zubieta-castillo-relami-altura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/altitudeclinic.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/homenaje-gustavo-zubieta-castillo-relami-altura\/","title":{"rendered":"Homenaje Gustavo Zubieta-Castillo RELAMI Altura"},"content":{"rendered":"

RELAMI Altura, Octubre 2015. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/strong>(English version below)<\/p>\n

HOMENAJE GUSTAVO ZUBIETA-CASTILLO <\/strong><\/p>\n

1926-2015\u2028<\/strong><\/p>\n

Homenaje \u201cIn Memoriam\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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A la Familia y a su hijo Dr. Gustavo Zubieta Calleja (La Paz \u2013 Bolivia) del Ilustre y Honorable Profesor Dr. Gustavo Zubieta-Castillo MD<\/strong> (20 mayo 1926 a 17 septiembre 2015, 89 a\u00f1os) m\u00e9dico boliviano, experto en medicina de altitud, fisi\u00f3logo, cirujano militar, escritor, pintor, nombrado como el “Gur\u00fa de la monta\u00f1a” en el Colegio M\u00e9dico de San Juan en Bangalore, India (1).<\/p>\n

Ha trabajado en fisiolog\u00eda de alta monta\u00f1a. Naci\u00f3 a 3800m en Oruro, Bolivia, y despu\u00e9s de estudiar medicina en la Universidad Mayor de San Andr\u00e9s en la ciudad de La Paz, a 3.513 m sobre el nivel del mar, enfoco todo su trabajo a temas de fisiolog\u00eda en alta monta\u00f1a y m\u00e1s tarde evolucion\u00f3 al estudio de la patolog\u00eda derivada de la altitud. Propuso nuevos conceptos y la comprensi\u00f3n de lo que se conoce como la Enfermedad Cr\u00f3nica de Monta\u00f1a. Esta patolog\u00eda objetivada a gran altura, con cifras por encima de los valores normales para tales altitudes, se caracteriza por un aumento del n\u00famero de gl\u00f3bulos rojos, cianosis, fracaso ventilatorio y alteraciones respiratorias con hipertensi\u00f3n pulmonar e hipertrofia del ventr\u00edculo derecho, que inicialmente se afirmaba que se deb\u00eda a “la p\u00e9rdida de la adaptaci\u00f3n”. El profesor Gustavo Zubieta Castillo cambi\u00f3 esta interpretaci\u00f3n, y el estaba firmemente convencido de que: “Los sistemas org\u00e1nicos de los seres humanos y de todas las dem\u00e1s especies tienden a adaptarse a cualquier cambio ambiental y circunstancias en un per\u00edodo \u00f3ptimo de tiempo, y nunca tienden a la regresi\u00f3n lo que conducir\u00eda inevitablemente a la muerte” (2). Este concepto ha cambiado la forma en como se interpretan las enfermedades de gran altitud.<\/p>\n

El 9 de julio de 1970, Zubieta-Castillo funda la primera cl\u00ednica de gran altura en el mundo y que se encuentra en La Paz, Bolivia, denominada \u201cInstituto de Patolog\u00eda en la Altura\u201d. Una de sus teor\u00edas es que el hombre tiene la extraordinaria capacidad de adaptaci\u00f3n a vivir en un ambiente hip\u00f3xico incluso en el punto m\u00e1s alto del planeta Tierra: la cumbre del monte Everest de 8842m (3).<\/p>\n

Por tanto; es para nosotros, la Am\u00e9rica Andina agrupada en la \u201cRed Latinoamericana de Investigaci\u00f3n de Medicina Intensiva en la Altura\u201d \u2013 RELAMI-Altura, ofrecer este homenaje p\u00f3stumo a tan ilustre colega y profesor boliviano, mostrar nuestro agradecimiento por haber tenido el honor de compartir momentos de sublime aprendizaje, y por marcar el sendero a seguir en la Medicina en la Altura.<\/p>\n

Atentamente<\/strong><\/p>\n

PRIMERA JUNTA DIRECTIVA<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr. Manuel Jibaja Vega. COORDINADOR GENERAL,<\/p>\n

Dr. E. Enrique Marav\u00ed Poma.COORDINADOR EUROPA.<\/p>\n

Dr. Jos\u00e9 Antonio Carmona Suazo. COORDINADOR M\u00c9XICO.<\/p>\n

Dr. Guillermo Ortiz Ruiz. COORDINADOR COLOMBIA<\/p>\n

Dr. Ignacio Vladimir Granda Luna. COORDINADOR ECUADOR.<\/p>\n

Dr. Amilcar Tinoco Sol\u00f3rzano. COORDINADOR PER\u00da.<\/p>\n

Dr. Freddy Sandi Lora. COORDINADOR BOLIVIA.<\/p>\n

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HOMAGE GUSTAVO ZUBIETA-CASTILLO<\/strong><\/p>\n

1926-2015<\/strong><\/p>\n

IN MEMORIAM<\/strong><\/p>\n

To the family and his son Dr. Gustavo Zubieta-Calleja (La Paz, Bolivia) of the Illustrious Honorable Professor Dr. Gustavo Zubieta-Castillo MD<\/strong> (May 20 1926 to September 17, 2015, 89 years old) bolivian physician, high altitude medicine expert, physiologist, military surgeon, writer, painter, named the “Mountain Guru” at the Medical College of Saint John’s in Bangalore, India (1).<\/p>\n

He worked in high altitude physiology. Born at 3800m in Oruro, Bolivia and after studying medicine in the Universidad Mayor de San Andres in the city of La Paz, at 3513m above sea level, he focused all his work on high altitude physiology and later evolved to the study of pathology resulting from high altitude. He proposed new concepts and the understanding of what is known as Chronic Mountain Sickness. This pathology observed at high altitude, with values above the normal ones for such altitude, is characterized by an increase of the number of red blood cells, cyanosis, ventilatory insufficiency and respiratory alterations with pulmonary hypertension and right ventricular hypertrophy, that was initially considered to “loss of adaptation”. Professor Gustavo Zubieta-CAstillo changed this interpretation and he was firmly convinced that “The organic systems of human beings and all other species, tend to adapt to any environmental change and circumstance in an optimal period of time, and never tend towards regression, which would unavoidably lead to death<\/em>” (2). This concept has changed the way how disease is interpreted at high altitude.<\/p>\n

On July 9th, 1970, he created the first high altitude clinic in the world, that is found in the city of La Paz, Bolivia with the name ” Instituto de Patolog\u00eda en la Altura” (‘High Altitude Pulmonary and Pathology Institute”). One of his theories is that man has the extraordinary capacity to adapt to live in a hypoxic environment even in the highest point on planet earth, the summit of Mt. Everest 8842m (3).<\/p>\n

Consequently, it is for us, the Andean America gathered int the ‘Red Latinoamericana de Investigaci\u00f3n de Medicina Intensiva, en la Altura” – RELAMI-Altura, (“Latin-American Network of High Altitude Intensive Care Research”) to offer this posthumous homage to such an illustrious Bolivian colleague and professor, showing our gratitude for having had the honor of sharing the sublime learning and for showing us the road to follow in High Altitude Medicine.<\/p>\n

Referencias,<\/p>\n

1. http:\/\/altitudeclinic.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/the-mountain-guru\/<\/p>\n

2. http:\/\/altitudeclinic.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/forever-loss-of-adaptation-does-not-exist\/<\/p>\n

3. Zubieta-Castillo G, Zubieta-Calleja GR, Zubieta-Calleja L, Zubieta-Castillo N (2008). “Facts that Prove that Adaptation to life at Extreme Altitude (8842m) is possible”. In Adaptation Biology and Medicine, Suppl 5: 348\u2013355. Editors: L. Lukyanova, N. Takeda and P.K. Singal. Copyright \u00a9 2008 Narosa Publishing House Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, India. 26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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