Felix Largiadèr

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Felix Anton Largiadèr (born December 18, 1930 in Flawil ; † July 4, 2018 ) was a Swiss visceral and transplant surgeon and professor of surgery at the University of Zurich . Among other things, he is considered a pioneer of kidney transplantation.

Life

Felix Largiadèr was born as the son of the surgeon Hans Philipp Largiadèr (born January 18, 1895 - † February 22, 1984) and his wife Gertrud (née Stüdli). He completed primary and secondary school in Flawil , then the St. Gallen high school , where he obtained the Matura (type A) in 1950.

Felix Largiadèr completed his medical studies in Geneva, Munich and Zurich. During his student days he joined the Swiss Zofingerverein . After the state examination in 1956, he worked as an assistant doctor in Wattwil, St. Gallen and Zurich. In 1959 he received his doctorate from the University of Zurich. med. From 1963 to 1965 he was a Medical Fellow in the areas of visceral surgery and transplant research at the University of Minnesota Medical School in Minneapolis . He also completed a two-year postgraduate course with a major in surgery and a second in biochemistry (Master of Science in Surgery 1965).

From August 1965 Felix Largiadèr worked at the surgical clinic of the University Hospital Zurich with Åke Senning . After his habilitation in 1967, he was appointed private lecturer, in 1973 titular professor, in 1980 full professor for organ transplant surgery and in 1985 full professor for surgery at the University of Zurich. From April 16, 1985 until his retirement on April 15, 1998, he was Clinical Director of Visceral Surgery and Head of the Surgery Department.

Felix Largiadèr was already experimenting with heart transplants in 1962 . After his return to Zurich in 1965, he took over the kidney transplants . In 1973 he performed the first clinical pancreatic transplant in Europe. In 1985 he was co-founder and in 1998/99 President of Swisstransplant, the Swiss foundation for organ donation and transplantation, which coordinates the allocation of donor organs in Switzerland on behalf of the Federal Office of Public Health .

Felix Largiadèr had been a member of the Leopoldina since 1988 . He was also an honorary member of the following organizations: German Society for Surgery , Austrian Society for Surgery, Swiss Society for Visceral Surgery, Swiss Society for Surgery, Swiss Transplantation Society, Spitalul de Urgenta Bucharest, Swiss Society for Thoracic Surgery.

Publications

  • Organ transplant. Second, English edition. With 20 contributions. Georg Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart 1970 (1st edition published in 1966)
  • Surgery checklist. 11th edition. With three co-editors (Christiane Bruns, Marius Keel, Hans-Detlev Saeger) and 34 authors. Georg Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart 2016. ISBN 978-3-13-522510-4 (1st edition appeared as checklist visceral surgery 1975)
  • A long-term functioning human pancreatic islet allotransplant. Transplantation 29: 76, 1980 (with E. Kolb and U. Binswanger)
  • F. Largiadèr, M. Decurtins, R. Schlumpf: The delayed duct occlusion technique of human pancreatic transplantation. In: Clinical transplantation. Volume 4, Number 6, December 1990, pp. 385-392, PMID 10147631 .
  • Organ transplant. From mythology to the experienced present. EMH Schweizerischer Ärzteverlag, Basel 2010. ISBN 978-3-03754-051-0 .
  • The Val Müstair and the Lärchenharzer. An etymological search for traces. Verlag Johannes Petri, Basel 2015. ISBN 978-3-03784-068-9 . (with Helene Largiadèr)

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituaries. In: NZZ . July 10, 2018, accessed July 20, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Schweizerischer Zofingerverein, Schweizerischer Altzofingerverein (Ed.): Membership Directory 1997. Zofingen 1997, p. 68. (Available in the Swiss National Library , call number SWR 1338.)
  3. ↑ Member entry by Prof. Dr. Felix Largiadèr (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on May 16, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Largiadèr, Felix
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Largiadèr, Felix Anton (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss surgeon
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Flawil
DATE OF DEATH 4th July 2018