Christian Chaussy

Christian G. Chaussy (born January 1945 ) is a German urologist and surgeon, known for his involvement in the development of kidney stone fragmentation with shock waves (ESWL, extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy ).

Chaussy studied medicine at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU), where he obtained his doctorate in 1972 and then carried out research in transplant medicine at the Institute for Surgical Research. For this he received the von Langenbeck Prize of the German Society for Surgery in 1975 (with Claus Hammer ). In the same year he was with Roy Calne in Cambridge. He then worked in urology (with Egbert Schmiedt ), where his research with Ferdinand Eisenberger and the physicist Bernd Forßmann from the Dornier-System company via ESWL began around 1975 . This led to the first treatment of a patient with the new method on February 7, 1980 by Chaussy and Dieter Jochamin Munich. In 1981 he became professor of urology in Munich and head of the lithotripsy unit at the Großhadern clinic. In 1984 he became professor of urology at the University of California, Los Angeles and in 1986 head of urology at the Harlaching Clinic in Munich. In 2010 he retired there. He holds an advisory professorship at the University of Regensburg and also a professorship at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California .

At the Harlaching Clinic in 1996, together with Stefan Thüroff, he began treating prostate cancer using ultrasound ( High Frequency Focused Ultrasound , HIFU), a procedure that he helped to develop. As a result, they treated over 2500 patients with it (2011).

In 1981, along with Eisenberger, Forßmann and others, he received the Maximilian Nitze Prize of the German Society for Urology , and he also received their Ritter von Frisch Prize. He received the Endourological Society's Lifetime Achievement Award (of which he became President in 2012), is an honorary member of the Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh and was President of the German Lithotripsy Society for twenty years. He holds an honorary professorship at the Beijing Medical School, is an honorary member of the Chinese Urological Society and a member of the scientific advisory board of the Rinecker Proton Therapy Center , a private clinic for radiation therapy in Munich (2014).

Fonts

• C. Chaussy, T. Bergsdorf, S. Thüroff: Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy. Past, present and future , Der Urologe, Volume 45, 2006, special issue, pp. 189–194
• F. Eisenberger, C. Chaussy, B. Forßmann: Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL). Chronology of a development , Der Urologe, Volume 46, 2007, pp. 1015-1019
• Extracorporal shock wave lithotripsy: technical concept, experimental research, and clinical application , 2nd edition, Basel, Karger 1986 (Habilitation, first in 1980 contact-free kidney stone fragmentation through extracorporeally generated, focused shock waves )

Web links

• Literature by and about Christian Chaussy in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ C. Chaussy, E. Schmiedt, D. Jocham, W. Brendel, B. Forßmann, V. Walther First clinical experience with extracorporeally induced destruction of kidney stones by shock waves , J. Urology, Volume 167, 2002, No. 5 , Pp. 1857-1960