Rastelli was born in Pescara on 25 June 1933. His father, Vito Rastelli, was a journalist; his mother, Bianchi Luisa, was a primary school teacher. He had a younger sister, Rosangela, who would be an English teacher and social worker. He was interested in medicine from a young age.[2] Rastelli met with Padre Molin Mosè when he was 12 years old.[3] On 10 August 1964, he married Anna Anghileri of Sondrio, who had met while skiing in Bormio. In 1965, Antonella Rastelli was born; she is now a doctor.[4]
Entrance into medicine
He attended the University of medicine[clarify] in Parma and started going to the hospital during his third year; he graduated cum laude in medicine and surgery in 1957, and immediately started working for free in the surgical clinic of Parma. In 1958, he passed the exam for the professional ability[clarify] with full marks; he was[when?] an internist at Human Anatomy Institution[clarify]. Children and their families would cross the ocean to seek treatment by him; he used to visit children for free in Italy and then he would make sure they could face the overseas journey at the Mayo Clinic.[5]
American period
On 7 September 1961, Rastelli won a NATO scholarship at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. There he learnt cardiology with a brand-new approach due to the teachings of Drs. Jeremy Swan and John W. Kirklin. His two surgical techniques, Rastelli 1 and Rastelli 2, have been fundamental in the classification of both truncus arteriosus[6] and transposition of the great vessels. He never left Italy, and paid for children's travel and hosted them in his house near the Clinic;[7] sometimes to save money he used to season salad with hard-boiled eggs (a low price source of proteins).[8] The next years saw children coming from Parma – and other countries – to Rochester in order to be assisted. The first child to be operated by Rastelli was a four-year-old boy named Paolo Ravesi, who was affected by atrioventricular canal (partial type) and who had undergone surgery in Italy without success. In 1968 Rastelli operated on his second patient, the son of one of his colleagues in Parma, Pietro Maniscalco; since birth he had suffered from coarctation of the aorta, a condition thought to be inoperable in Italy.[7] He had been diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma in 1964, and as he grew sicker, he had to trust his colleagues to perform more of the care for his patients. He developed a new surgical approach named to the repair of transposition of the great vessels,[9] also known as the Rastelli 1 procedure. On 19 December 1969, Paolo Frugoni, a six-year-old boy with TGV, came to Mayo Clinic in search of medical assistance. Despite his poor health, Rastelli wanted to assist the surgeon at all costs during the surgery; the operation was a success and this was be the last one to which Rastelli assisted before his death three weeks afterward.[10]
Rastelli techniques
Nowadays the name of Giancarlo Rastelli is still remembered and used very much in the field of cardiac surgery due to the impact of his important discoveries. Rastelli was the author of 100 scientific publications and he is still renowned for two surgical procedures named Rastelli 1 and Rastelli 2 and for the classification of a particular kind of heart disease.[11]
Atrioventricular canal
Chronologically his first discovery was the anatomical description and classification of a particular kind of heart disease named atrioventricular canal. The atrioventricular canal represents 3-5% of heart diseases which originates from an embryological ventricular septal defect of the cardiac cavity.[12] That lesion affects the crux cardis, a structure formed by the crossing of the atrial and ventricular septa and by the atrioventricular valves: tricuspid and mitral. This area has the same origin: it forms from endocardial cushions.[13] In patients who are affected by the atrioventricular canal, which is caused by the non-fusion of the endocardial cushions, there is a communication between the right and left sides of the heart at the level of the atria and ventricles. In addition, the two atria are in communication with the two ventricles through a single common valve, instead of two distinct ones.[12] In 1966, the magazine "Mayo Clinic Proceedings" has published the classification of the different forms: complete and incomplete, that the atrioventricular canal assumes. In the complete form there is the distinction of three subtypes of heart diseases: A,B or C according to the characteristics of the common anterior germ layer of the Atrioventricular canal. In the incomplete form there is the distinction of two types with or without interventricular communication. The proposed classification has been granted from all over the world and from that moment, the different types of the A-V canal have been classified according the Rastelli's classification.[14]
Rastelli operation
The truncus arteriosus is a type of congenital heart disease which was object of study by Rastelli. It is characterized by a lack of formation of the two main vessels that normally bring blood from the heart to the lungs and to the rest of the body. Due to embryological defects, in patients affected, a unique vessel carries the blood either to the lungs either to the other organs and tissues. The innovation of Rastelli's group consisted in improving an already pre-existent surgical technique by introducing extracardiac conduct from the right ventricle to the pulmonary artery. The technique evolved into an operation applicable to a great variety of cardiac anomalies including those children born with transposition of the great arteries, ventricular septal defect, and pulmonary stenosis.[15]
Illness and death
In September 1964, Rastelli underwent clinical examinations, a routine for the researchers of the Mayo Clinic. He was diagnosed with lung cancer and given six months to live. After the chest biopsy surgery, he was diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease. At that time, the first chemotherapy was being tested at the Mayo Clinic. The disease had been shown to have a five-year course with chemotherapy. In December 1969, after five years from the start of chemotherapy, the disease seemed to have disappeared. Unfortunately, just fifteen days later a large lymph node was detected in the liver. He decided to set off, accompanied by his wife, unaware of his last condition, for a trip to New York. Back in Rochester, his searches became frantic; he was conscious of the short time he still had available. On 29 January, Rastelli had to illustrate the third Rastelli method to his team. However, his condition suddenly worsened and he did not show up for the meeting: in this way his third method will not be revealed. He was hospitalized and intubated. On 2 February 1970, Rastelli passed away.[16]
At the end of 1980 Padre Mario Castelli Dei Gesuiti di Parma got interested in the figure of Giancarlo and suggested him for sainthood, with the aim of bringing him as an example for young Catholics, young students, researchers and doctors. The journey of canonization was very long and difficult also because of the death of padre Mario Castelli a few years later. It was only in 2000 that Andrea Maggiali proposed again the cause of beatification or at least the venerability of Rastelli. The cause of canonisation is currently in a waiting and prayer period.[17]
In May 1978 a School in Polesine Parmense was entitled "Giancarlo Rastelli".[8][12] The Municipality of Parma entitled a street "Giancarlo Rastelli" near the place where the Rastelli's lived. In September 2013 was inaugurated the "Casa della Salute" at Polesine Parmense and it was given the name of Giancarlo Rastelli in Polesine Parmense.[18]
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This article has multiple issues Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page Learn how and when to remove these template messages This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Giancarlo Rastelli news newspapers books scholar JSTOR May 2021 Learn how and when to remove this template message This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia s quality standards The specific problem is Wording sentence structure Please help improve this article if you can May 2021 Learn how and when to remove this template message Learn how and when to remove this template message Giancarlo Rastelli 1933 1970 was a cardiac surgeon He was the creator of the Rastelli procedure He died of cancer at 36 years of age At the time of his death he was the head of cardiovascular surgical research at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester Minnesota 1 Servant of GodGiancarlo RastelliLaypersonBorn 1933 06 25 25 June 1933Pescara ItalyDied2 February 1970 1970 02 02 aged 36 Rochester Minnesota United StatesVenerated inRoman Catholic ChurchPatronagedoctors physicians heart surgeons Contents 1 Biography 1 1 Childhood and private life 1 2 Entrance into medicine 1 3 American period 2 Rastelli techniques 2 1 Atrioventricular canal 2 2 Rastelli operation 3 Illness and death 4 Recognition 5 Eponyms 6 Bibliography 7 ReferencesBiography EditChildhood and private life Edit Rastelli was born in Pescara on 25 June 1933 His father Vito Rastelli was a journalist his mother Bianchi Luisa was a primary school teacher He had a younger sister Rosangela who would be an English teacher and social worker He was interested in medicine from a young age 2 Rastelli met with Padre Molin Mose when he was 12 years old 3 On 10 August 1964 he married Anna Anghileri of Sondrio who had met while skiing in Bormio In 1965 Antonella Rastelli was born she is now a doctor 4 Entrance into medicine Edit He attended the University of medicine clarify in Parma and started going to the hospital during his third year he graduated cum laude in medicine and surgery in 1957 and immediately started working for free in the surgical clinic of Parma In 1958 he passed the exam for the professional ability clarify with full marks he was when an internist at Human Anatomy Institution clarify Children and their families would cross the ocean to seek treatment by him he used to visit children for free in Italy and then he would make sure they could face the overseas journey at the Mayo Clinic 5 American period Edit On 7 September 1961 Rastelli won a NATO scholarship at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester Minnesota There he learnt cardiology with a brand new approach due to the teachings of Drs Jeremy Swan and John W Kirklin His two surgical techniques Rastelli 1 and Rastelli 2 have been fundamental in the classification of both truncus arteriosus 6 and transposition of the great vessels He never left Italy and paid for children s travel and hosted them in his house near the Clinic 7 sometimes to save money he used to season salad with hard boiled eggs a low price source of proteins 8 The next years saw children coming from Parma and other countries to Rochester in order to be assisted The first child to be operated by Rastelli was a four year old boy named Paolo Ravesi who was affected by atrioventricular canal partial type and who had undergone surgery in Italy without success In 1968 Rastelli operated on his second patient the son of one of his colleagues in Parma Pietro Maniscalco since birth he had suffered from coarctation of the aorta a condition thought to be inoperable in Italy 7 He had been diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma in 1964 and as he grew sicker he had to trust his colleagues to perform more of the care for his patients He developed a new surgical approach named to the repair of transposition of the great vessels 9 also known as the Rastelli 1 procedure On 19 December 1969 Paolo Frugoni a six year old boy with TGV came to Mayo Clinic in search of medical assistance Despite his poor health Rastelli wanted to assist the surgeon at all costs during the surgery the operation was a success and this was be the last one to which Rastelli assisted before his death three weeks afterward 10 Rastelli techniques EditNowadays the name of Giancarlo Rastelli is still remembered and used very much in the field of cardiac surgery due to the impact of his important discoveries Rastelli was the author of 100 scientific publications and he is still renowned for two surgical procedures named Rastelli 1 and Rastelli 2 and for the classification of a particular kind of heart disease 11 Atrioventricular canal Edit Chronologically his first discovery was the anatomical description and classification of a particular kind of heart disease named atrioventricular canal The atrioventricular canal represents 3 5 of heart diseases which originates from an embryological ventricular septal defect of the cardiac cavity 12 That lesion affects the crux cardis a structure formed by the crossing of the atrial and ventricular septa and by the atrioventricular valves tricuspid and mitral This area has the same origin it forms from endocardial cushions 13 In patients who are affected by the atrioventricular canal which is caused by the non fusion of the endocardial cushions there is a communication between the right and left sides of the heart at the level of the atria and ventricles In addition the two atria are in communication with the two ventricles through a single common valve instead of two distinct ones 12 In 1966 the magazine Mayo Clinic Proceedings has published the classification of the different forms complete and incomplete that the atrioventricular canal assumes In the complete form there is the distinction of three subtypes of heart diseases A B or C according to the characteristics of the common anterior germ layer of the Atrioventricular canal In the incomplete form there is the distinction of two types with or without interventricular communication The proposed classification has been granted from all over the world and from that moment the different types of the A V canal have been classified according the Rastelli s classification 14 Rastelli operation Edit The truncus arteriosus is a type of congenital heart disease which was object of study by Rastelli It is characterized by a lack of formation of the two main vessels that normally bring blood from the heart to the lungs and to the rest of the body Due to embryological defects in patients affected a unique vessel carries the blood either to the lungs either to the other organs and tissues The innovation of Rastelli s group consisted in improving an already pre existent surgical technique by introducing extracardiac conduct from the right ventricle to the pulmonary artery The technique evolved into an operation applicable to a great variety of cardiac anomalies including those children born with transposition of the great arteries ventricular septal defect and pulmonary stenosis 15 Illness and death EditIn September 1964 Rastelli underwent clinical examinations a routine for the researchers of the Mayo Clinic He was diagnosed with lung cancer and given six months to live After the chest biopsy surgery he was diagnosed with Hodgkin s disease At that time the first chemotherapy was being tested at the Mayo Clinic The disease had been shown to have a five year course with chemotherapy In December 1969 after five years from the start of chemotherapy the disease seemed to have disappeared Unfortunately just fifteen days later a large lymph node was detected in the liver He decided to set off accompanied by his wife unaware of his last condition for a trip to New York Back in Rochester his searches became frantic he was conscious of the short time he still had available On 29 January Rastelli had to illustrate the third Rastelli method to his team However his condition suddenly worsened and he did not show up for the meeting in this way his third method will not be revealed He was hospitalized and intubated On 2 February 1970 Rastelli passed away 16 At the end of 1980 Padre Mario Castelli Dei Gesuiti di Parma got interested in the figure of Giancarlo and suggested him for sainthood with the aim of bringing him as an example for young Catholics young students researchers and doctors The journey of canonization was very long and difficult also because of the death of padre Mario Castelli a few years later It was only in 2000 that Andrea Maggiali proposed again the cause of beatification or at least the venerability of Rastelli The cause of canonisation is currently in a waiting and prayer period 17 Recognition EditRecipient of a NATO scholarship Recipient of a golden medal from Carlo ERBA Foundation after winning the prize Missione del medico Appointment to be member of the National Institute of HealthEponyms EditIn May 1978 a School in Polesine Parmense was entitled Giancarlo Rastelli 8 12 The Municipality of Parma entitled a street Giancarlo Rastelli near the place where the Rastelli s lived In September 2013 was inaugurated the Casa della Salute at Polesine Parmense and it was given the name of Giancarlo Rastelli in Polesine Parmense 18 Bibliography EditAnonymus santiebeati it servo di Dio Giancarlo Rastelli 14 agosto 2007 Anonymous paolosestoparma it Rastelli s biography PDF John W Kirklin M D Dwight C McGoon M D Patrick A Ongley M D G C Rastelli M D Surgical repair of the complete form of persistent common atrioventricular canal The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 55 3 299 308 March 1968 doi 10 1016 s0022 5223 19 42953 x ISSN 0022 5223 Anna Leonardi it clone org Rastelli Il grande cuore del dottor Gian 13 settembre 2018 G V Lo Russo G Lucertini A Pace V Sandroni La prima carita al malato e la scienza Giancarlo Rastelli un cardiochirurgo appassionato all uomo Itaca Castel Bolognese 2017 ISBN 88 526 0536 3 Pier Andrea Maccarini Giancarlo Rastelli un celebre cardiochirurgo e un santo sconosciuto Giornale Italiano di Cardiologia Novembre 2006 Vol 7 N 11 768 769 doi 10 1714 703 8064 Dwight C McGoon An Operation for the Correction of Truncus Arteriosus JAMA The Journal of the American Medical Association 205 2 69 8 July 1968 doi 10 1001 jama 1968 03140280023007 ISSN 0098 7484 Rastelli Zavattaro Rosangela Giancarlo Rastelli un cardiochirurgo con la passione dell uomo Milano Ancora 2003 ISBN 88 514 0124 1 G V Lo Russo G Lucertini A Pace V Sandroni A Rastelli Science is an act of Love Giancarlo Rastelli a cardiac surgeon with a passion for mankind Castel Bolognese Itaca 2020 ISBN 88 526 0631 9 https history mayoclinic org books films heritage films science is an act of love dr giancarlo rastelli at mayo clinic phpReferences Edit Hansel Jeff 5 February 2005 Mayo doctor considered for beatification Rochester Post Bulletin Retrieved 12 January 2020 Rastelli Zavattaro Rosangela 2003 Giancarlo Rastelli Un cardiochirurgo con la passione dell uomo Milano Rosangela Rastelli Zavattaro pp 15 18 Rastelli Zavattaro Rosangela 2003 Giancarlo Rastelli un cardiochirurgo con la passione per l uomo Milan Ancora p 17 Leonardi Anna 13 September 2018 Rastelli Il grande cuore del dottor Gian Italiano in Italian Retrieved 9 May 2021 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint url status link Servo di Dio Giancarlo Rastelli su santiebeati it Santiebeati it Retrieved 9 May 2021 D C McGoon G C Rastelli P A Ongley An Operation for the Correction of Truncus Arteriosus JAMA 1968 a b Lo Russo Lucertini Pace Sandroni 2017 p 71 a b Lo Russo Lucertini Pace Sandroni Gerardo Vito Giovanni Andrea Veronica 2017 La prima carita all uomo e la scienza Giancarlo Rastelli un chirurgo appassionato all uomo Castel Bolognese ITACA ISBN 978 88 526 0575 8 a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a CS1 maint multiple names authors list link Lo Russo Lucertini Pace Sandroni 2017 p 75 Lo Russo Lucertini Pace Sandroni 2017 p 74 Pier Andrea Maccarini Giancarlo Rastelli un celebre cardiochirurgo e un santo sconosciuto Giornale Italiano di Cardiologia Novembre 2006 Vol 7 N 11 768 769 doi 10 1714 703 8064 a b c G V Lo Russo G Lucertini A Pace La prima carita al malato e la scienza Giancarlo Rastelli un cardiochirurgo appassionato all uomo chapter 8 pag 59 Itaca Castel Bolognese ISBN 8852605363 Rastelli Zavattaro Rosangela 2003 Giancarlo Rastelli un cardiochirurgo con la passione dell uomo chapter 9 pag 69 Milano Ancora ISBN 88 514 0124 1 OCLC 53152830 Rastelli G C Ongley Patrick A Kirklin John W McGoon Dwight C March 1968 Surgical repair of the complete form of persistent common atrioventricular canal The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 55 3 299 308 doi 10 1016 s0022 5223 19 42953 x ISSN 0022 5223 PMID 5642695 McGoon Dwight C 8 July 1968 An Operation for the Correction of Truncus Arteriosus JAMA 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