COMENTARIOS A LA LABOR DEL DR EDUARDO LUQUE

1. Dr. Amilcar Beyot
Departamento de Deformidades Espinales
Hospital de Niños
Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
Córdoba, Argentina

2. Ron L. Ferguson, MD
Director of Clinical Research
Shriner's Hospital for Crippled Children
Greenville, South Carolina, USA

"This has lead to an explotion of new instrumentations for spinal surgery throughout the world. These instrumentation systems have been used to treat spinal deformity, spinal trauma and spinal degenerative disease. They span all age groups. Your work in concert with other phisicians and patients at the Hospital GDL has made a lasting contribution that will be of historic importance"

3. John P. O'Brien, PhD, FRCS (Ed), FACS, FRACS
Consultant Surgeon in Spinal Disorders
London, England

"I support Dr. Luque wholeheartdly in his campaign to raise funds for the Hospital GDL which will not only benefit patients troughout Mexico but also throughout the whole world"

4. George F Rapp, MD
Spine Surgery Scoliosis
Orthopaedic Specialists of Indiana, PC
Indianapolis, IN, USA

"Dr Luque has developed other spinal techniques at Hospital GDL, including correction of large deformities of the spine by vertebrectomy. This has allowed for correction without elongation of the spine and has been very helpful particularly in the area of congenital scoliosis. More recently, the GDLH System was developed at the Hospital GDL ant it, I think, will profoundly influence spinal deformity correction in the future. This was also recently approved by the FDA for the use in the United States"

5. David B. Levine, MD
Attending Orthopaedic Surgeon
Proffesor of Clinical Surgery
Corneli University Medical College
Hospital for Special Surgery
New York, NY, USA

"I visited Dr. Luque in Mexico in 1982. At that time I observed some of the mexican children with severe deformities and the excellent results obtained from surgery at the Hospital GDL. I also observerd surgery on a patient at that time. Mexico is very fortunate to have such an internationally known orthopaedic surgeon, Dr. Eduardo R. Luque and the famous hospital where he works. First rate health care for severe spinal disease is readily available in Mexico City"

6. Daniel R. Benson, MD
Professor Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
University of California,
Disorders of the Vertebral Column
& Pediatric Orthopaedics
Sacramento, CA, USA

"I had opportunity to visit the Hospital GDL some years ago and observed Dr. Luque working there. It is an outstanding institution and takes care of a number of people who would otherwise not find healthcare. Mexico City and the country of Mexico must be very proud of the expertise that the individuals who practive in this hospital have demonstrated through the years"

7. Pesi B. Chacha, MD. FAMS, MBBS, M Ch Orth, FRCS
Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeron
Orthopaedic Surgery PTE, LTD
Singapore

"It is a long time since we met last. I am particularly writing this note to you to say how grateful we are to you for introducing us to the Segmental Spinal Insturmentation that you developed at the Hospital GDL in Mexico City. There is no doubt that Segmental Spinal Insturmentation has revolutionized the managment of spinal deformities"

8. Raymond T. Morrissy, MD.
Medical Director and Chief of Orthopaedics
Scottish Rite Children's Medical Center
Atlanta, GA, USA

"The contributions which you and the Hospital GDL have made to orthopaedics are enormous. I can first remember the excitement in the 70's as we learned of your thechnique of Segmental fixation with wires. After Dr. Herring, Dr Sullivan and Dr Crawford visited you, I immediately took up the technique and interestingly enough, still use it having just done a case yesterday witn exactly the same technique. It still remains standard of care for all of us in the treatment of paralytic scoliosis"

9. Ronald L DeWald, MD.
Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery
Director, Section of Spinal Surgery
Rush-Presbyterian St. Luke's Medical Center
Chicago, IL, USA

"Dr. Luque has made his hospital GDL, a well known hospital throughout the world for his work with these patients"

10. Alberto Ponte, MD.
Professor in Orthopaedics
Centro Deformita Vertebrali Ospedale Santa Corona
New York, NY, USA

"The Hospital GDL in Mexico City, which I had the privilage of visiting, is one of the universally reknown institutions in the field of Spine Surgery in the last two decades many of the most revolutionary contributions to progress in Orthopaedics have been developed under its charismatic Director Dr. Luque creating and consolidating the Hospital's international fame as one of the world leaders in Orthopaedic Reconstructive Surgery. This, combined with its noble social function, makes the Hospital worthy of every possible attention in order to maintain and imporve its standard"

11. Dr Nelson Cassis, MD.
Cirujano en Jefe
Hospital Shriners para Niños Lisiados AC
México, DF

"El Hospital GDL es reconocido internacionalmente debido al intenso trabajo desarrollado por el Dr. Eduardo Luque en la investigación clínica para la cirugía de columna. En este lugar inició el concepto de que la columna es una estructura segmentaria y la cual debe ser manejada en esa forma, siendo esto la contribución más importante en la década de los 70's para el tratamiento de la cirugía de columna y a partir de esto para la instrumentación segmentaria de columna la cual ha sido base para el desarrollo de todos los diferentes métodos actuales"

12. Vernon T. Tolo, MD.
John C. Wison, Jr
Professor of Orthopaedics
USC School of Medicine
Head, Division of Orthopaedics
Los Angeles, CA, USA

"While the service your hospital has contributed to orthopaedic surgeons througout the world in the area of new and innovative methods of treatment in unsurpassed, and even larger role has been server by the Hospital GDL in the care of people in the Mexico City and Mexico area. In so doing you have trained large number of orthopaedists who can continue to care for young Mexican children based on their training in your hospital"

13. Thomas S. Whitecloud III, MD.
Professor and Chairman
Tulane University School of Medicine
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
New Orleans, LA, USA

"The hospital is also involved in the training of numerous residents and fellows and has been visited by spinal surgeons from throughout the world. It is indeed an institution of which to be proud"

14. Albert E. Sanders, MD. PA.
Orthopaedic Surgery
San Antonio, Texas, USA

"The Hospital GDL has become recognized throughout the world as an institution dedicated to providing state of the art care for the poor who have sever orthopaedic deformities. To continue its mission, your support is needed. I know of no other institution that provides so much both in the way of care to needy and quality research as the Hospital GDL"

15. Dr. Manuel Dufoo Olvera
Jefe de la Clínica de Columna
Hospital General de "La Villa"
Dirección General de Servicios de Salud
del Departamento del Distrito Federal
México, DF

"El beneficio de este trabajo ha sido transmitido a la población, principalmente a la de bajos recursos económicos, durante 20 años, siendo ejemplo para hombres e instituciones que dedicamos nuestro esfuerzo al tratamiento de las enfermedades de la columna vertebral"

16. Reginald Q. Knight, MD.
Director, Orthopaedic Spine Surgery
Virginia Mason Clinic
Seattle, WA, USA

"Your success in developing multiple systems and theories regarding spine surgery are well documented in the spine and orthopaedic literature throughout the world. I have not had the pleasure of visiting the Hospital GDL in Mexico City, but its reputation as an excellent facility for spinal deformity is well known"

17. Richard T. Holt, MD.
Spine Surgery
Louisville, KE, USA

"In addition, the Hospital GDL has been the founding place of Luque II Interpenduncular Fixation for the low back and the concepts of correction of the spine without elongation and correction of deformities through multiple vertebrectomies. Overall the work has been performed in the hospital has profoundly affected spine surgery throughout the world"

18. Ben L. Allen Jr., MD.
Chief of Staff
Shriner's Hospital for Crippled Children
Greenville Unit
Greenville, South Carolina, USA

"As a world citizen and one who has benefitted from work at the Hospital GDL, I endorse support of this hospital to you as one of the most beneficial to mankind investments you can make. Pleas open your heart to the need"

19. Susana Barnetche de Martínez
Coordinadora General
Renovación, Unión de Fuerzas,
Unión de Esfuerzos, AC
México, DF.

"Si se hiciera es esta institución un calendario de techas conmemorativas, una de las más importantes sería el 23 de Octubre, DIA DEL MEDICO. Ha pensado en lo que representa su atención profesional, respetuosa, cálida y desinteresada para personas que no cuentan con recursos, con una salud precaria y sin servicio médico institucional?"

20. Terry R. Trammell, MD.
Orthopaedics Indianapolis
Indianapolis, IN, USA

"I can't imagine that the contribution that you have made in the service to the poor people in Mexico that have no access to any other hospital could possibly be ignored or under estimated. You have selflessly thaught many the world around, and I simply can't imagine that the fuits of your labors have gone unnoticed in your locale"

21. Ray L Lawson, MD.
Orthopaedic Surgery
W.B. Carrell Memorial Clinic, Associated
Dallas, TX, USA

"The hospital GDL has facilitated Dr. Luque and the orthopaedic staff to make great contributions to the world with innovative techniques for the most difficult spinal deformities"

22. Robert Gillespie , MD. Ch.B.
Professor and Chairman
Departament of Orthopaedic Surgery
University at Buffalo School of Medicine
and Biomedical Sciences
Head Department of Orthopaedics
The Children's Hospital of Buffalo
Buffalo, NY, USA

"I know that the disadvantaged children of Mexico owe a great deal to the institution and to Dr Luque, and they should be very proud that the same applies to children throughout the world"

23. John Hall, MD.
Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
Harvard Medical School
Ortopaedic Surgeon-in-Chief
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
Children's Hospital
Boston, MA, USA

"I have personally been very much impressed and ssisted by your development of the infant instrumentation system and have now used in on nine ocasions, allowing me to get corrections I was totally unable to achieve in the past in very young children. Your influence and that of the hospital have made a tremendous impact in the world of orthopaedic surgery and will continue to do so for years to come"

24. Zhikang Wu, MD.
Chief of Chinese Orthopaedic Association
Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
Peking Union Medical College Hospital
Chinese Academy of Medical Sciencies
Beijing, China

"Luque's technique was brougth to China by Dr. Gordon Armstrong at 1981, we organized a class including 56 senior Chinese Orthopaedic Surgeons to learn form Gordon. Then the Luque operation was carried out all over China now already 13 years passed thousand over thousands of patients received useful treatment from Luque technique. I think, his hospital should be extended and obteined more helping from the rich people to maje walfare for the poor patients, because Dr. Luque is world famous and his technique is accepted by most orthopaedic surgeon all over the world. Please refer my words to he funders, thank you"

25. Eugene E. Bleck, MD.
Professor Emeritus, Orthopaedic Surgery
Stanford University Medical Center
Hillsborough, CA, USA

"The hospital has been instrumental in instructing surgeons on the technique and principles of surgery and techniques of spinal fixation and vertebrectomy. In fact, we sent Dr. Larry Rinsky, now Prof. of Orthop. Surgery to Mexico to learn the techniques in 1979. Thus, the hospital has been a resource for international orthopaedic education. There is no question that Dr. Luque and the Dr. German Diaz Lombardo Hospital has been responsible for a revolution in surgery of the spine and that the techniques and principles have been adopted world wide"

26. Mark Asher, MD.
Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
School of Medicine
Department of Surgery
Orthopaedic Section
The University of Kansas Medical Center
Kansas City, KA, USA

"It is a great privilege to write a letter to strong support of the fund raising campaign for the Hospital GDL in Mexico City. As you will no doubt remember, I visited the hospital march 15-21, 1985, and was very impressed with that you were doig. As a result of this visit and many other contacts with you I feel well informed about your work. Your commitment over these past 20 years to the service of the citizens of Mexico who had no other access to orthopaedic reconstructive surgery, along with the teaching of residents and fellows, has been exemplary and an inspiration to all"

27. Michael F. Schafer, MD.
Ryerson Professor and Chairman
Northwestern University Medical Schoolr
Chicago, IL, USA

"I have known Eduardo Luque for the past 20 years. During that period of time, he has played a significant role in the treatment of spinal deformities, not only in Mexico, but throughout the world. Because of this innovative concepts, the use of Segmental Spinal Instrumentation was developed in the Hospital GDL in Mexico City. This procedure enables us to correct and treat spinal deformities that previously could only be partially corrected by other methods. He continued to modify and imporve the technique and we now begin to conceptualize the need for a 3 dimentional treatment of the spine. This 3 dimensional treatment enables us to treat the spinal deformities in the coronal and sagital planes"

28. Dr. Rodolfo Ortiz Soto
Jefe del Departamento de Ortopedia y Traumatología
Hospital de Especialidades
Centro Médico de Occidente, IMSS
Guadalajara, Jalisco, México

"Los cirujanos de columna del IMSS y de Guadalajara, estamos agradecidos de por vida con las técnicas desarrolladas en el Hospital Germán Díaz Lombardo y conducidas por usted. Técnicas que conocemos y adoptamos desde hace 20 años y que han sido aplicadas en miles de pacientes portadores de deformidades severas de la columna vertebral, logrando su reincorporación social y laboral. Su labor ha trascendido fronteras y es conocida en todo el mundo, lo cual nos hace sentir orgullosos. Nos causa preocupación el saber de las condiciones económicas precarias por las que cursa el Hospital GDL, institución altruista de trascendencia internacional, que consideramos sería lamentable que suspendiera su labor asistencial y de investigación"

29. Thomas G. Lowe, MD.
Associate Clinical Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
University of Colorado
Health Sciences Center
Denver, CO, USA

"I am writing a letter on behalf of Dr. Eduardo Luque who is the Director of GDL Hospital. I am writing as a Spine Surgeon in the United States. Dr. Luque has been a pioneer in thefield of spinal surgery for many years. His concept of segmental spinal instrumentation with rods and sublamina wires for the three dimensional treatment deformity of the spine became the State of the Art for the treatment of scoliosis in the early 1980's. This method of treatment has survived the test of time and is still being very frequently used around the world for the treatment of neuromuscular scoliosis"

30. Pierre Stagnara, MD.
Docteur en Medecine
Docteur en Lettres
Fondateur de l'European Spinal Deformity Society
Ancien president de la societ francaise de chirurgie orthopedique et traumatologie.
Member honoraire ou emerite de societes nationales et internationales d'etude de la Scoliose
Garanches, Odenas, France

"Il en est un des plus grands specialistes dans le monde et les procedés qu'il a inventés ont été adopt'tes par la plupart des chirurgiens de notre spécialité. Pour le Mexique, il est plus qu'un ambassadeur car c'est son service hospitalier qu'ont convergé des visiteurs du monde entier. On peut étre súr contibueront au progrés dont il a été et est encore un des artisan le plus efficaces"

31. John P. Kostuik, MD.
Professor of Orthopaedics/Neurosurgery
Chief, Spine Division of Johns Hopkins Hospital
Former President of Scoliosis Research Society
and North American Spine Surgery
Baltimore, MA, USA

"Dr. Eduardo Luque, via de hospital, has been very instrumental in teaching and in improving the quality of Orthopaedic Surgery, in particular spinal surgery in Mexico. The Hospital GDL has provided service to the people of Mexico for many years"

32. Alan Gardner, MB., BS., FRCS
Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon
Hartswood Hospital
Essex Nuffield Hospital
Springfield Medical Center
Danbury, England

"The Luque Segmental Spinal Instrumentation (SSI) technique was, I presume, largely developed at the Hospital GDL and was a very significant step forward in the field of spinal instrumentation. I still use it routinely as the method of choice in the management of paralytic and idiopathit scoliosis in conjuntion with the Hartshill Luque Rectangle"

33. Dr. Mario Hermosilla A.
Departamento de Ortopedia
Instituto de Enfermedades de la Columna Vertebral
Santiago, Chile

"Celebramos como latinoamericanos los avances logrados por los implantes de Luque o Instrumentación Segmentaria de Columna, el importante aporte de Luque II a la fijación interpedicular de columna lumbar y por qué no decirlo, la disminución desde el Marco de Luque hasta el marco de Lea Plaza"

34. Dr. Fortunato Reyes
Ortopedia y Traumatología
México, DF

"Deseo informar que en representación del Hospital GDL, el Dr. Eduardo Luque Rebollar ha colaborado para la elaboración de la bibliografía de diferentes libros, siendo los siguientes una pequeña parte de los mismos:

Skeletal Trauma, Fractures, Dislocations, Ligamentous Injuries. Browner, Jupiter, Levine, Trafton, WB Saunders Co, Philadelphia, Penn, 1992
Operative Orthopaedics. Chapman, Michael and Michael Madison, JB Lippincott Co. Philadelphia, Penn, 1988.
Campbell's Operative Orthopaedics. A.H. Creenshaw. The CV Mosby Co. St Louis, MIss, Eashington, DC, Toronto 1987
The Art and Practice of Children's Orthopaedics. Dennis, R. Wenger an Mercer Rang. Raven Press, New York, NY, 1992
Surgery of the Spine. Findlay, Gordon and Robert Owen. Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1992.
Spinal Instrumentation. Howard S and Jerome M Cotler. Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore , Meryland, 1992
Segmental Spinal Instrumentation. Eduardo Luque. Slack incorporated, USA, 1984.
The Lower Extremity and Spine in Sport Medicine. Nicholas, James and Elliot Hershman. The CV Mosby Co. St Louis, Miss, 1986.
The Spine. Rothman, Richard and Frederick A Simeone WB Saunders Co. Philadelphia, Penn. 1992.
Fractures. Rockwood. Charles and David Green JB. Lippincott Co. Philadelphia, Penn, 1984.
Tumours of the Spine. Diagnosis and Clinical Management. Sundaresan, Narayan; Schmidek, Henry;Schiller, Alan and Daniel Rosenthal. WB Saunders Co. Philadelphia, Penn, 1990.
The Lumbar Spine. Weinstein, James and Sam Wiesel. WB Saunders Co. Philadelphia, Penn 1990.

"No omito manifestar que a través del Dr. Luque, el Hospital GDL, ha sido reconocido mundialmente por la labor en el campo de la Cirugía Ortopédica"

35. G. R. Viviani, MD, FRCS
Professor, Orthopaedics
McMaster University Medical Center
Faculty of Health Services
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

"I would like to send you my congratulations for the 20 years of service that your hospital has given to the people of Mexico with spinal reconstructive surgery. I belive that your hospital should feel very proud of these achievements and I certainly congratulate you and your hospital"

36. Thomas S. Renshaw, MD.
Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation
Yale University "The School of Medicine"
New Heaven, CT, USA

"I am very pleased to have the oportunity to comment upon the mayor contributions that you and the Hospital GDL have made. I belive that the great concept of 3 Dimensional correction of spinal deformities and rigid internal fixation to mantain that correction is the major contribution. This technique has been applied to children with neuromuscular diseases throughout the world and certainly ranks as one of the most significant benefits of all time to the child wiht a neuromuscular disorder and a progressively deforming spine"

37. Charles F Heinig, MD.
Consultant Orthopaedic Surgery
Miller Orthopaedic Clinic, Inc.
Charlotte, NC, USA

"It is obvious to those of us who used to refer to Medico as a "Third World Country" that is no longer the case and that the Hospital GDL has played a mayor role in this turn about: I trust that the new FDL Spinal Implant System will be a great success and help solve many spinal problems for Mexico and the world"

38. Lawrence A. Rinsky, MD.
Professor of Clinical Surgery Orthopaedics
Stanford University School of Medicine
Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery
Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital
Palo Alto, CA, USA

"More recently, Dr Luque and his hospital have benn responsible for the development of the GDL System and the infant spinal implant system. Like all new systems these are modified and imporver as our scientific base of knowledge expands. Nonetheless, the GDL Hospital and Dr. Luque have been responsible for major landmark advances in the field of correction of spinal deformity. I would consider that hospital to be at the center of the improvements that have been made over tha last 25 years in the spinal deformity surgery"

39. Dr. Enrique Reina
Jefe del Servicio de Cirugía
Instituto Nacional de Rehabilitación
Buenos Aires, Argentina

"Todas estas contribuciones lo han llevado a ocupar un primerísimo lugar dentro de las figuras internacionales de la especialidad y un verdadero orgullo para la Ortopedia y Traumatología Latinoamericana"

40. Dr. Fernando Colchero
Investigador Titular
Instituto Nacional de Ortopedia
Secretaría de Salud
México, DF

"Todo lo anterior ha sido derivado de tu Sistema GDL y aprobado ya en la FDA de Estados Unidos"

41. John A. Herring, MD
Chief of Staff
Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children
Dallas, TX, USA

"Through his work at Diaz Lombardo Hospital, Dr. Luque has taught literally hundreds of orthopaedics surgeons not only from Mexico, but from all over the world his improved techniques for spine surgery. In my opinion, supporting this work is one of the best contributions one could make tho the health of children in Mexico and all over the world"