Professor MUDr. Milan Šamánek, DrSc., FESC, (May 9, 1931 - April 29, 2020) - the departure of the legend
2020
Abstract
With the departure of Professor Milan Šamánek, Czech cardiology, pediatrics and all Czech medicine are losing one of the greatest personalities who in the last century in Czechoslovakia, Europe and the world have fundamentally contributed to changing the view of children born with congenital heart disease. While as many as 80 percent of children with heart disease died in the early 1970s without any treatment, during the 1980s and 1990s, mortality fell to as much as two percent due to the development of new diagnostic and treatment procedures.
And Milan Šamánek, thanks to his extraordinary organizational talent, visionary ability and ability to convince himself of the correctness of his opinions on this success, had immense merit.