Grignola Rial, Juan Carlos

Research interests

The main area of ​​research is cardiovascular mechanics, with emphasis on right ventricular physiology, pulmonary circulation, and ventriculo-arterial coupling, using a translational approach. On the one hand, acute animal models in acute pulmonary hypertension (pulmonary embolism, normobaric global hypoxia) with the study of the effects of Levosimendan (ino-dilator drug). On the other hand, this approach was applied in different clinical groups of patients with pulmonary hypertension using echocardiography, right heart catheterization, and intravascular ultrasound.

Working area

Physician and specialist in Intensive Care Medicine from the University of the Republic (UR, Uruguay) with a Doctoral Thesis at the Faculty of Medicine of the UR.
Free Professor of Pathophysiology at the Faculty of Medicine (UdelaR).
Member of the Pulmonary Hypertension Unit staff of the Maciel Hospital (Ministry of Public Health, Mdeo-Uruguay).