Étienne-Louis Arthur Fallot

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Étienne-Louis Arthur Fallot

Étienne-Louis Arthur Fallot (born September 20, 1850 or September 29, 1850 in Sète , † April 30 or May 1911 ) was a French medic . In 1888 he published the Fallot tetralogy, which was later named after him .

Life

Fallot studied medicine from 1867 at the University of Marseille . In 1876 he received his doctorate from the University of Montpellier . He spent his entire academic career in Marseille, where he taught pathology and was appointed assistant professor of forensic medicine and hygiene in 1883 and professor of these subjects in 1888. He held this position until his death. Fallot was Chef de Clinique des Hôtel-Dieu and Chef de Service des Hôpital de la Conception in Marseille .

Fallot tetralogy

In 1888 Fallot published a description of a heart malformation, which later - like the Fallot trilogy - named after him the Fallot tetralogy . Various authors had previously described this malformation, some as early as the 17th century. Fallot's treatise names the four components of the malformation for the first time - a pulmonary stenosis, a ventricular septal defect, an aorta that rides above the cardiac septum, and hypertrophy of the right heart - and describes this constellation as "tetralogy". He described the malformation itself as maladie bleue (for example, “the blue disease, the blue evil”) and cyanose cardique (“heart cyanosis ”). He attributed the cause of the combined malformation to a single pathological process. Fallot also described the occasional additional occurrence of an atrial septal defect , a malformation syndrome, which is referred to as Fallot pentalogy . Ambrose Birmingham is considered to be the first to describe it, although he published this finding four years after Fallot. Based on individual case reports and other articles from the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, the eponym “Fallot tetralogy” slowly gained acceptance in the various languages. Maude Abbott is often mentioned as the author who introduced the term in 1924 as the "tetralogy of Fallot" into English-language specialist literature.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to Acierno, p. 322., v. Praagh gives September 20, 1850 as his birthday, cf. v. Praagh p. 24.
  2. ↑ Berry, p. F152.
  3. ↑ v. Praagh, p. 24.
  4. ^ E. Fallot: Contribution à l'anatomie pathologique de la maladie bleue (cyanose cardiaque). In: Marseille Med. 1888, 25: 77-93, 138-158, 207-223, 270-286, 341-354, 403-420.
  5. ↑ Evans, pp. 637f.
  6. ↑ v. Praagh, p. 24.
  7. ↑ Acierno, p. 321.
  8. ↑ See Evans, pp. 637f., V. Praagh, p. 24.
personal data
SURNAME Fallot, Étienne-Louis Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French doctor
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1850 or September 29, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Sète
DATE OF DEATH April 30, 1911 or May 1911