Pierre Mollaret

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Pierre Mollaret (born July 10, 1898 in Auxerre , † December 3, 1987 in Paris ) was a French neurologist who made a special contribution to the field of infectious diseases of the nervous system. In 1944 he described a recurring (recurrent) benign viral meningitis , which bears his name as Mollaret meningitis . The Guillain-Mollaret triangle , a functional neural circle between the nucleus olivaris , nucleus ruber and nucleus dentatus in the cerebellum, is named after him and Georges Charles Guillain .

Life

Pierre Mollaret began studying medicine in 1916, which was interrupted by the First World War. From 1917 to 1918 he served in the medical service and was awarded the Croix de guerre . In 1919 he took part in the Polish-Soviet War as a volunteer in a Polish light infantry unit . In 1920 he returned to his studies. Mollaret worked for years with Georges Charles Guillain, who was one of his teachers. In 1926 he finished his studies and in 1929 submitted his dissertation. He was then chief physician at the Salpêtrière for two years . From 1933 Pierre Mollaret worked as an assistant to Auguste Pettit and later to René Dujarric de la Rivière at the Pasteur Institute , from 1935 he headed the laboratory until 1941, then until 1946 as head of the entire institute. In 1936 Mollaret was also appointed professor. With the beginning of the Second World War he was mobilized and had command of an army laboratory. He was posted to North Africa and from 1940 worked in the Casablanca military hospital in the malaria department. In 1943 and 1944 he took part in the medical and educational committee of the Comité de l'Empire Français . Later he was a member of the epidemiological committee of the National Hygiene Institute. He advised the Ministry of Health as an expert and was an elected member of the Commission on Sleeping Sickness in the Ministry of Colonial Affairs. In 1947 he followed André-Alfred Lemierre to the chair of infectious diseases at the Claude Bernard Hospital in Paris. When epidemic outbreaks of polio appeared in Scandinavia in the early 1950s , Mollaret worked with other experts to prepare centers that were being prepared for the massive care of people with respiratory paralysis. These measures made it possible to contain mortality during the epidemic.

Bibliography (selection)

  • P. Mollaret: Méningite endothélio-leucocytaire multirécurrente bénigne. Syndrome nouveau ou maladie nouvelle? (Documents cliniques). Revue neurologique, Paris, 1944, 76: 57-76.
  • G. Guillain, P. Mollaret, Ivan Georges Bertrand: Sur la lesion responsable du syndrome myoclonique de tronc cerebral. Revue neurologique, Paris, 1933: 666-674.
  • P. Mollaret, J. Reilly, R. Bastin, P. Toursier: La lymphoréticulose bénigne d'inoculation. La presse médicale, Paris, 1950, 58: 1353-1355.

literature

  • L. Sarikcioglu and M. Sindel: Pierre Mollaret (1898–1987) and his legacy to science. J. Neurol. Neurosurg. Psychiatry, October 1, 2007; 78 (10): 1129-1135.

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personal data
SURNAME Mollaret, Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French neurologist and infectiologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Auxerre
DATE OF DEATH 3rd December 1987
Place of death Paris