Richard Desmond Rowe MD, MB, ChB February 10, 1923 to January 18, 1988

Fame, 1-7 the internationally known paediatric cardiac surgeon, Aldo R. Castañeda (Fig. 1). The life and work of Aldo, including his many outstanding contributions to paediatric cardiac surgery, to surgical education, research and teaching, serve as an example and great inspiration for past and new generations in our speciality. Aldo was a pioneer in paediatric cardiac surgery; and his contribution to the surgical treatment of congenital cardiac disease in particular has proved to be of historic importance. We shall offer a short analysis of his life, a gentlemen citizen of the world, who, after his retirement from the surgical leadership of the Children's Hospital of Boston and Harvard Medical School, returned to Guatemala to continue his mission by developing the first and the only programme for paediatric cardiac surgery in Central America. Early life and education Aldo Castañeda was born in Nervi, close to Genoa, Italy, on July 17, 1930. His mother, Isabel Heuberger, was from Nicaragua, and his father, Ricardo Castañeda Palacios, from Guatemala. In 1935, the family moved to Munich, where his father studied medicine. Aldo started primary school in Munich in 1936. When the second World War began in 1939, the state of the family as Guatemalan citizens made them aliens and foreign enemies, so they were not allowed to leave Germany. In 1944, their home was completely destroyed during an air raid. The difficult war years, especially living under the totalitarian rule of Nazism, impacted profoundly Aldo's subsequent vision of life. He spent one more year at the Landschulheim in Schoendorf, a school in Bavaria widely recognized for its academic excellence. Then, after a brief first

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Richard Desmond Rowe MD, MB, ChB February 10, 1923 to January 18, 1988

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