El Dr. Eduardo Luque....



1.	Dr. Amilcar Beyot Departamento de Deformidades Espinales Hospital de Niños Universidad Nacional de Córdoba Córdoba, Argentina "El Hospital GDL, ha dado a través de los años, aportes científicos que han marcado un rumbo en el tratamiento de la columna. A partir del concepto de "La Segmentación de la Columna" y de "La Técnica de Instrumentación Segmentaria", realizada con el alambrado sublaminar, es que se comienza a solucionar problemas , que hasta ese momentos eran insalvables, como es el tratamiento del paciente con Escoliosis Neuromuscular"
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"