James Hogarth Pringle

James Hogarth Pringle

James Hogarth Pringle (* 1863 in Parramatta , † 24. April 1941 in Killearn ) was from Australia originating surgeon .

Life

Pringle, son of surgeon James Hogarth Pringle (1831–1872), graduated from Edinburgh University in 1885 with a degree in medicine. He then worked in various hospitals in England, Scotland, Germany and Austria. From 1890 he worked as a surgeon at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary with William MacEwen . At the Medical School of Queen Margaret College, which became part of the University of Glasgow in 1895, Pringle was a prosector and lecturer in surgery. In 1923 he retired, but continued to do research and teaching.

The case descriptions he left are kept in the archives of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow (RCPSG).

Act

In 1908, the surgeon introduced the Pringle maneuver, later named after him, to control bleeding in injuries to the liver . Pringle was initially reluctant to stop the blood supply through the portal vein and the arteria hepatica propria , as Carl Langenbuch had previously described that this measure was fatal. After Pringle successfully performed surgery on rabbits, he used the maneuver in human surgery.

The monograph Fractures and their Treatment , published in 1910, takes up the author's experience in dealing with open and closed fractures . To prevent infection, Pringle advocated extensive debridement of the open fracture. When treating fractures, he often resorted to implants, which at that time - long before the use of antibiotics  - earned him severe criticism from his colleagues. In contrast, Pringle cited lower amputation rates than the conservative method.

1913 described Pringle bridging a portion of the popliteal artery ( popliteal artery ) (by means of a vein autologous graft ) after aneurysm resection. In a second case he did a similar thing after injuring the brachial artery . Pringle thoroughly documented the postoperative course. His first patient died several years later, the transplant was removed and taken to the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh.

In 1908, Pringle carried out a radical extirpation in two patients with malignant melanoma of the thigh or forearm . The success of these interventions was again documented over several decades (until 1937).

In 1904, Pringle published cases of urethral injuries being bridged by an ox graft.

Publications (selection)

• XIII. Repair of the Urethra by Transplantation of the Urethra of Animals. In: Annals of Surgery . Volume 40, Number 3, September 1904, pp. 387-397, ISSN  0003-4932 . PMID 17861519 . PMC 1425757 (free full text).
• V. Notes on the Arrest of Hepatic Hemorrhage Due to Trauma. In: Annals of surgery. Volume 48, Number 4, October 1908, pp. 541-549, ISSN  0003-4932 . PMID 17862242 . PMC 1406963 (free full text).
• I. Avulsion of the Spine of the Tibia. In: Annals of surgery. Volume 46, Number 2, August 1907, pp. 169-178, ISSN  0003-4932 . PMID 17862006 . PMC 1414389 (free full text).
• A method of preparation in cases of melanotic tumors of the skin. In: Edinburgh Medical Journal. Volume 23, 1910, pp. 496-499.
• Fractures and their treatment . Henry Frowde, Hodder & Stoughton, London 1910.
• Two cases of vein grafting for the maintenance of a direct arterial circulation. In: The Lancet . 181, 1913, pp. 1795-1796, doi : 10.1016 / S0140-6736 (01) 24514-0 .
• An analysis of 230 cases of open fracture of the long bones treated by operative methods. In: British Journal of Surgery . 2, 1914, pp. 102-109, doi : 10.1002 / bjs.1800020510 .
• Cutaneous melanoma. Two cases alive thirty and thirty-eight years after operation. In: The Lancet. 229, 1937, pp. 508-509, doi : 10.1016 / S0140-6736 (00) 75819-3 .

literature

• LE Gurey, KG Swan, KG Swan: James Hogarth Pringle. In: The Journal of Trauma . Volume 58, Number 1, January 2005, pp. 201-205, ISSN  0022-5282 . PMID 15674176 .
• James Hogarth Pringle 1863-1941. The Glasgow Royal Infirmary. In: The British Journal of Surgery . Volume 51, April 1964, pp. 241-245, ISSN  0007-1323 . PMID 14138244 .
• James Hogarth Pringle obituary. In: British Medical Journal. Number 1, 1941, p. 734.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ James Hogarth Pringle obituary. In: British Medical Journal. Number 1, 1941, p. 734.
2. ↑ Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow: Archive Collections: Pringle, James Hogarth (1863–1941), Surgeon  ( 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. .  
3. ↑ Carl August Langenbuch: A case of resection of a left-sided laced lobe of liver healing. In: Berliner Klinische Wochenschrift . Number 19, 1880, pp. 37-38.
4. ^ Gurey, Swan: p. 202.
5. ↑ James Hogarth Pringle: XIII. Repair of the Urethra by Transplantation of the Urethra of Animals. In: Annals of surgery. Volume 40, Number 3, September 1904, pp. 387-397, ISSN  0003-4932 . PMID 17861519 . PMC 1425757 (free full text).