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BERMUDEZ ARIAS, Fernando et al. Inicio de la cardiología en Venezuela. Gac Méd Caracas [online]. 2006, vol.114, n.1, pp.44-61. ISSN 0367-4762.

Summary Cardiology established its bases between the XVI century and XX century and begins in 1920, when for the first time the word "cardiology" appears as the title of the magazine of the "Archivos de Cardiología y Hematología", founded by Pitaluga and Galandre, in Spain. In Venezuela cardiology was started in 1925, by Doctor Heberto Cuenca Carruyo in Maracaibo, and continued in Caracas from 1931 to 1938. Cuenca regents the Internal Medicine class at the UCV from 1935, and also was the chief of Medical Service at the "Hospital Vargas" in 1936. He was followed by doctors Gustavo Plaza Izquierdo as the chief of the Cardiology Class in 1936, and Bernardo Gómez in 1937. Later on, Gómez initiated the structuring of the basic cardiological institutions of the country campaign to which was incorporated doctor Carlos Gil Yépez. Cuenca published ninety research papers on clinical investigation, thirty of the them about cardiology: ischemia, arrhythmias, electrocardiography, radiology, congenital ones, miocardiopatías and heart in sports, published in the magazine of the "Sociedad Médico-Quirúrgica del Zulia", "Gaceta Médica de Caracas" and "Archivos Venezolanos de Cardiología y Hematología" which was edited by him in 1935. This was the first Venezuelan cardiological magazine. The first of his investigations, in 1927, was about electrocardiography

Keywords : Start; Venezuela; Cardiology; Cuenca.