Renan Uflacker

Renan Uflacker (born 1949 – June 12, 2011) was an American physician. At the time of his passing, he was Professor and Director of Interventional Radiology at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), in Charleston, South Carolina.

Education and career

Since 1977, Uflacker has practiced vascular and interventional radiology, becoming professor and director of the division of Vascular and Interventional Radiology at MUSC in 1993. He attended medical school in his hometown of Porto Alegre, Brazil, earning his MD in 1974. After residency in diagnostic radiology and a fellowship in cardiovascular radiology, he settled in his hometown practicing vascular radiology at a private hospital and at the Hospital of the Catholic University, where he did extensive work in peripheral vascular diseases and gastrointestinal diseases. At that time he pursued a master’s degree in gastroenterology with the presentation of an original thesis.

In the course of his career he has performed extensive work in peripheral diseases in balloon angioplasty, treatment of vascular blockages which included pioneer work with the publication of the first superior mesenteric angioplasty and the first portal vein angioplasty.Uflacker R, Alves MS,...
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