He read Medicine in Madrid and Salamanca and soon, in 1954 while still a student, he became interested in the heart's functioning. Paco Torrent-Guasp was born in Gandía (1931), in the duchy of the Borggia, the driving force behind the culture of the Quattrocento, but he lived and researched in Denia, a Roman, Moorish and always Mediterranean city.

He was an authentic individual and he was so every time you met him, always devoted to seeking out the logic in the heart's functioning as a pump. Paco was cultured, wise, extremely curious, imaginative, spontaneous, unconventional, nonconformist, enthusiastic, committed, and well-endowed with common sense. It was Jane Somerville who, in 1970, in London had likened Paco to Leonardo Da Vinci in the quality of his paintings (what Somerville did not know was that Paco was indeed a painter he even once exhibited in Paris) and also in that he was a product that could easily be exemplary of the time and places of the Renaissance. He had always shown an interest in talking to electrophysiologists so they might see how the contraction of the heart began in the right ventricle outflow tract myocardium and ended somewhere in the left ventricular apex, making what his great friend Pedro Zarco had, one February 25 at the Spanish Royal Academy of Medicine, termed the 'cardiologic piston.' He had also been able to explain to some his daring theories about electric circulation and he had made it quite clear that the contraction of the last zones of the myocardial band produced the suction of blood from the atrium to the left ventricle. It had been worth his while going to Madrid, albeit in a wheelchair as he had been for some weeks due to the pain of sciatica. I told Teresa, his widow, that he had been very pleased with the atmosphere, the way he had been treated, the attention and respect he had been shown both by organizers and participants. Paco Torrent-Guasp died suddenly in Madrid after giving the closing lecture of the meeting on electrophysiology and arrhythmias organized by Jerónimo Farré and Concha Moro.

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