Leo Buerger

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Leo Buerger (born September 13, 1879 in Vienna , † October 6, 1943 in New York City ) was an American pathologist , surgeon and urologist .

Life

In 1880 his family immigrated to the USA.

Leo Buerger attended various elementary schools in New York, Chicago and Philadelphia and graduated from college in New York City in 1897 (BA). He completed general (MA 1901) and medical studies ( College of Physicians and Surgeons , MD 1901) at Columbia University in New York.

Buerger initially worked at Lenox Hill Hospital (1901-1904) and in the surgical-pathology department of Mount Sinai Hospital (1904-1905). He then went on to volunteer at the surgical clinic in Wroclaw and study visits to Vienna and Paris . From 1907 (until 1920) Buerger worked as a pathologist and surgeon again at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. He later worked as a surgeon in several other clinics in the city ( Beth David Hospital , Bronx Hospital , Wyckoff Heights Hospital , Brooklyn ).

In 1917 Buerger was appointed professor of urology at the New York Medical Polyclinic, which he represented until 1930. Then he took a call of the College of the Medical Evangelists , Los Angeles ( California ) to a similar chair. He only stayed here for a short time and soon returned to New York to work in private practice.

power

Buerger's scientific work is very diverse and dealt mainly with bacteriology , pathology of vascular diseases , general surgery and the urological field.

In 1905 he developed a method for the fixation of pneumococci and investigated the transmission possibilities of these bacteria from person to person as well as from contagious material. In 1908 he described the so-called Brown-Buerger cystoksope , which he had developed, a cystoscope that had been standard instruments for American urologists for 35 years. He developed a urethroscope , a cystourethroscope and an operative cystoscope as further diagnostic-operative instruments that were due to his ingenuity . These technical aids enabled intraurethral therapy of bladder stones , bladder tumors and the diagnosis of intravesical lesions and neoplasms . An early diagnosis of urogenital tuberculosis also made extensive surgical interventions avoidable. In addition, he developed a successful method of arteriovenous vascular suturing .

As a pathologist, Buerger dealt in particular with bone sarcomas , bladder papillomas and carcinomas . In particular, peripheral occlusive disease was one of his main areas of work during his work at Mount Sinai Hospital . Between 1906 and 1908 Leo Buerger established the modern basic knowledge of vascular diseases of the extremities . In 1908 he presented the main result of thrombangiitis obliterans , later also called "Winiwarter-Buerger Syndrome", as a disease entity at a meeting of the Association of American Physicians in Washington, DC .

Buerger alone or in collaboration with others has made more than 160 articles in various scientific journals.

Fonts

  • Thrombo-Angiitis Obliterans: A study of the vascular lesions leading to presenile spontaneous gangrene. Am J Med Sci 136 (1908) 567 (L. Buerger: Landmark publication from the American Journal of the Medical Sciences, 'Thrombo-angiitis obliterans: a study of the vascular lesions leading to presenile spontaneous gangrene'. 1908. In: The American journal of the medical sciences. Volume 337, Number 4, April 2009, pp. 274-284, ISSN  0002-9629 . doi : 10.1097 / MAJ.0b013e31818c8bc9 . PMID 19365174. )
  • The pathology of the vessels in cases of gangrene of the lower extremities due to so-called endarteritis obliterans. Proc NY Pathol Soc 8 (1908) 48
  • Circulatory Diseases of the Extremities. 1924.

literature

  • EJ Wormer: Angiology - Phlebology. Syndromes and their creators. Munich 1991, pp. 225-234.
  • GW Kaplan: Leo Buerger (1879–1973). In: Investigative urology. Volume 11, Number 4, January 1974, pp. 342-343, ISSN  0021-0005 . PMID 4588564 .
  • DG Schoenberg, BS Schoenberg: Eponym: Leo Buerger: instrument, disease, and ego. In: Southern medical journal. Volume 72, Number 6, June 1979, pp. 737-738, ISSN  0038-4348 . PMID 377504 .
  • FC Luft: Leo Buerger (1879–1943) revisited. In: The American journal of the medical sciences. Volume 337, Number 4, April 2009, p. 287, ISSN  0002-9629 . doi : 10.1097 / MAJ.0b013e318198d030 . PMID 19365176 .
  • S. Kagan: Jewish Medicine. Boston 1952, p. 71.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Barbara I. Tshisuaka: Buerger, Leo. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 219.
personal data
SURNAME Buerger, Leo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American pathologist, surgeon, and urologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH October 6, 1943
Place of death New York City