Erich Streicher

Erich Hugo Streicher (born June 28, 1931 in Munich ; † September 3, 1994 in Stuttgart ) was a German doctor and researcher.

Life

Streicher played a key role in the development of dialysis in Germany . He started as a medical assistant in 1959 and was later the first chief physician of the nephrology department at the Katharinenhospital in Stuttgart, which was newly founded in 1969 . In July 1960, he led the "Stuttgarter kidney", an artificial kidney , the hemodialysis for acute renal failure by. He developed simple and robust, but life-saving devices based on the principle developed by the Dutchman Willem Kolff . In 1965, the first attempt at permanent dialysis treatment began under Streicher's direction, carried out on the devices that were also used for acute dialysis.

In 1971 a home dialysis training station was set up in Jägerstrasse, where home dialysis training for patients began, and later a cooperation with home care for patients was entered into. Under the rectorate of Heinz Blenke , the first institute for biomedical technology in the Federal Republic of Germany was founded at the University of Stuttgart in 1970 and Erich Streicher was won over as an employee of this institute. In cooperation with the Institute for Biomedical Technology and other departments of the Technical University, he made his own contributions to improving dialysis treatment using apparatus and also participated in the development of completely new blood purification processes , e.g. B. plasma water filtration on asymmetric membranes ( hemofiltration ). The department for kidney and hypertensive diseases at the Katharinenhospital became the focus of dialysis treatment in the central Neckar area and thus the coordinating body for the care of terminal kidney patients through cooperation with other dialysis stations and by promoting home dialysis and transplantation .

On March 8, 1986, the first kidney transplant was carried out in Stuttgart and the transplant center was founded.

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  Press conference on the establishment of the transplant center in April 1986

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  Peritokomb after Streicher

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  Stuttgart kidney from 1970 ( Dialysis Museum Fürth )

literature

• Katharinenhospital Stuttgart - 150 years. Hohenheim, 1978, ISBN 3-89850-913-3 .
• Petra Knödler, Elisabeth Pfinder-Nohe: The Adventure of Dialysis: People and Technology. Norderstedt 2005, ISBN 3-83343-904-1 .

Web links

• Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation - Professor Dr Erich Streicher in memoriam
• Homepage Stuttgart Clinic