Joaquín Albarrán

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Joaquin Albarran

Joaquín María Albarrán y Domínguez , (born May 9, 1860 in Sagua la Grande , Cuba , † January 17, 1912 in Paris ) was a Cuban urologist .

Life

In 1878 Joaquin Albarrán went to Paris, where he researched and worked under many renowned doctors. According to Albarrán's assessment, the anatomist Louis-Antoine Ranvier (1835-1922) and the urologist Jean Casimir Félix Guyon (1831-1920) significantly influenced his career. In 1906 he succeeded Guyon as director of the urological clinic at the Hôpital Necker in the 15th arrondissement (Paris) . At the beginning of his career he dealt with microbiology and histopathology . He later switched to urology, for whose development he made significant contributions. He was the first doctor to perform a perineal prostatectomy in France . He owes the invention of a device for controlling a catheter at the tip of the cystoscope for catheterizing the ureters. The device is known as the forceps elevator and is now also used in gastroenterology for endoscopy of the biliary and pancreatic ducts. Albarrán received the prize named after Jonathan Goddard three times and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in 1912 .

Eponyms

  • "Albarrán-Ormond Syndrome": inflammatory retroperitoneal fibrosis; also named after the American urologist John Kelso Ormond (1886–1978), also named as Gerota syndrome after the Romanian anatomist and surgeon Dimitrie Gerota (1867–1939).
  • "Albarran glands": tiny subtrigonal glands in the urinary bladder.
  • "Albarrán sign": clinical sign of renal pelvic carcinoma.

Fonts

  • Anatomie et physiologie pathologique de la rétention de l'urine . Masson, Paris 1890 (together with Jean Casimir Félix Guyon).
  • Sur un série de quarante opérations pratiqués sur la rein . Revue de chirurgie 16 (1896), pp. 882-884 (first planned nephrostomy).
  • Operative surgery of the urinary tract. Normal anatomy and surgical pathological anatomy (“Médecine opératoire des voies urinaires”). Fischer, Jena 1910.
  • Étude sur le rein des urinaires . Dissertation, University of Paris 1889.
  • Les tumeurs de la vessie . Steinheil, Paris 1892.

literature

  • Ministerio de Salud (Cuba): Cincuentenario de la muerte del Dr. Joaquín Albarrán . La Habana, Cuba 1962 (Cuadernos de historia de la salud pública; Vol. 19).
  • J. Paulís Pagés: Joaquín Albarrán. Ingenious artífice de la urología . Museo "Carlos J. Finlay", La Habana 1963.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Urologists as candidates for the Nobel Prize
personal data
SURNAME Albarrán, Joaquín
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Albarrán y Domínguez, Joaquín María (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cuban urologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Sagua la Grande , Cuba
DATE OF DEATH January 17, 1912
Place of death Paris