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Franz P. Freudenthal is a Bolivian physician who is known for several medical inventions, including a device that can cure heart ailments in children. ==Career== Franz P. Freudanthal was born in La Paz, Bolivia to German parents. He was inspired to enter medicine by his grandmother, Dr. Ruth Tichauer of Wrischinski, who was born in Königsberg in 1910 and died in La Paz in 1995. He used to go with her as a child on her medical visits in remote rural areas of Bolivia. She was a pioneer in family planning and in outpatient treatment of tuberculosis, and shared her philosophy of life with Freudenthal. He attended the Higher University of San Andrés in La Paz for his undergraduate studies, then did his internship at Children's Hospital of La Paz. He decided to specialize in pediatric cardiology. His wife, Alexandra Heath, is also a doctor. The couple received scholarships to take specialized training in Germany. He performed his first operation on a child in Germany in the 1990s. Freudanthal became interested in medical devices. He was part of a team that in March 1998 reported encouraging results of tests on neonatal lambs for occlusion of patent ductus arteriosus with a double-helix device at RWTH Aachen University, Germany. The devices used memory-shaped double-cone stainless steel coils mounted on a titanium/nickel core wire. Freudanthal said that by the age of 25 he had treated more than 20 sheep with devices, and at the age of 29 had treated his first patient, a child that could not be cured in any other way. After returning to Bolivia in 2003 the Freudanthals founded Kardiozentrum, a center for diagnosis and treatment of congenital heart disease. They also created PFM Bolivia, to develop and market medical devices. In 2014 Freudanthal was heading a team of 80 young innovators on a new project to develop a treatment for strokes. Freudenthal has taken out a number of patents including a left atrial appendage occlusion device, embolization device, tissue clip, tissue tack, snare mechanism for surgical retrieval and deployment device for cardiac surgery. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Franz Freudenthal」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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