Christian Cabrol
Christian Cabrol (born September 16, 1925 in Chézy-sur-Marne , † June 16, 2017 in Paris ) was a French doctor , author and politician of the Rassemblement pour la République (RPR) and later the Union pour un mouvement populaire (UMP) . He was best known for performing the first heart transplant in Europe in 1968 .
Life
Christian Cabrol came from a farming family. He started studying medicine through his grandfather, who was a doctor.
After completing his studies, Cabrol went through a career in the Parisian hospitals. Gaston Cordier and, during a stay abroad in Minneapolis in 1956 , Clarence Walton Lillehei , were responsible for his development towards cardiopulmonary surgery . During her stay in the USA, I also made contact with Norman Shumway and Christiaan Barnard .
On April 27, 1968, Cabrol, with the assistance of Gérard Guiraudon, transplanted the first heart in Europe at the Hôpital de la Pietié-Salpêtrière . The 66-year-old patient Clovis Roblain died 53 hours after the operation.
From 1972 Cabrol headed the newly created department for cardiac surgery at the Hôpital de la Pietié-Salpêtrière. In this role, Cabrol carried out the first heart-lung transplant in France in 1982 and inserted the first artificial heart in 1986 . From 1989 Cabrol was President of France Transplant .
From 1989 to 2001 Cabrol was a member of the Paris City and General Council, first for the RPR and then for the resulting UMP. From 1995 he was assistant to the then mayor of Paris, Jean Tiberi .
From 1994 to 1999 Cabrol was a member of the European Parliament . There he was a member of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety .
He was a member of the Académie nationale de Médecine .
Cabrol was married to the French actress Bérengère Dautun for the second time .
Works
- De tout cœur , Éditions Odile Jacob, Paris 2006, ISBN 2-7381-1658-2
- Une histoire de coeur , Éditions les Belles Lettres, Paris 1999 (autobiography), ISBN 2251441468
- Le don de soi , ISBN 2012370403
- La bataille pour la vie
- Parole de médecin , ISBN 2-2530-6291X
- Les nitrates et l'homme , ISBN 295200871X
- Mangeons vrai , ISBN 2863918109
- Anatomy appareil locomoteur , ISBN 2257102517
- Guide familial de la santé , ISBN 2010213866
- Au cœur de la vie, itinéraire d'un chirurgien d'exception , foreword by Simone Veil Flammarion, 2012 ISBN 978-2-08127013-8
Awards
- Ordre national du Mérite
- Commander of the Legion of Honor
Web links
- Entry on Christian Cabrol in the European Parliament 's database of deputies
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c d e f Mort du professeur Christian Cabrol, qui avait réalisé la première greffe cardiaque en Europe in 1968. In: Le Monde . Groupe La Vie-Le Monde, June 16, 2017, accessed June 16, 2017 (French).
- ↑ Damien Mascret, Thibault Izoret Masseron: Avril 68, les coulisses de la première greffe cardiaque en France du Pr Cabrol. In: Le Figaro . April 28, 2015, accessed June 16, 2017 (French).
- ↑ Biography de Bérengère Dautun. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Spectacles.fr. Retrieved June 16, 2017 (French).
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cabrol, Christian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French doctor, author and politician, MEP |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 16, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chézy-sur-Marne , France |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 16, 2017 |
| Place of death | Paris , France |