Rudolf Pichlmayr

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Rudolf Pichlmayr (born May 16, 1932 in Munich ; † August 29, 1997 in Acapulco , Mexico ) was a German surgeon and, as the head of the department for abdominal and transplant surgery at the Hannover Medical School, one of the leading transplant doctors in Germany . He is considered a pioneer of liver transplantation. The introduction of the term “transplant medicine” goes back to Pichlmayr.

Life

Rudolf Pichlmayr grew up in Munich and studied medicine from 1951 to 1956 at the Ludwig Maximilians University . He then worked as an assistant doctor in pathology and pediatric surgery before joining Rudolf Zenker at the Surgical Clinic of the University of Munich in 1960 . Pichlmayr's training at Zenker focused on the treatment of immunological problems that occur in the form of rejection reactions after a transplant of foreign tissue. His habilitation thesis Production and Effects of Heterologous Anti-Dog Lymphocyte Serums was groundbreaking for the development of early immunosuppressive methods. For example, during the first heart transplant by Christiaan Barnard in 1967, the antilymphocytic globulins developed by Pichlmayr were used. The head of the Institute for Surgical Research in Munich, Walter Brendel , at whose institute Pichlmayr was also involved, was involved in the development of this antilymphocyte serum (ALS) .

In 1968 he moved from Munich to Hanover at the MHH , where he worked in the thoracic surgery department under Hans Georg Borst . Just one year later he was head of the department for special surgery and transplantation. In 1973 Pichlmayr finally became a full professor at the chair for abdominal and transplant surgery. Under his leadership, the institute became one of the world's leading research centers for transplant medicine. Numerous surgical techniques have been developed here. In 1988 Pichlmayr carried out the world's first so-called split liver transplant, in which the donor liver was divided and transplanted into two transplant recipients. During his time at MHH he was involved in 4,278 liver, kidney and pancreas transplants .

Together with his wife Ina he founded the “Foundation Rehabilitation after Organ Transplantation in Children and Adolescents” (later “Rudolf Pichlmayr Foundation”), which advocates the physical and psychological convalescence of children and adolescents after an organ transplant. The foundation acquired a farm in 1990, which was subsequently converted into the Ederhof rehabilitation center.

Pichlmayr received numerous awards, such as the Ernst Jung Prize in 1985 , the Erich Lexer Prize , the Lucie Bolte Prize in 1986 and the Lower Saxony Prize in 1987 . Also in 1986 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . He was also a member of the Central Ethics Committee of the German Medical Association. In 1990, Pichlmayr was voted "Medical Doctor of the Year". Most recently he was President of the German Society for Surgery.

Rudolf Pichlmayr died during a morning swim during a stay in Mexico as part of the 37th World Congress for Surgery in Acapulco . On January 12, 2006, the Alexis-Carrel -Strasse in Hanover was renamed “Rudolf-Pichlmayr-Strasse”. His wife Ina Pichlmayr (* 1932) was Professor of Anesthesiology at the MHH until her retirement. She completed her habilitation in 1968 in Munich with a thesis on the influence of different types of anesthesia on blood flow and function of the liver and blood flow to the cerebral cortex .

Fonts (selection)

  • Pichlmayr R. et al. (1988), Transplantation of a Donor Liver to Two Recipients (Splitting Transplantation): A New Method in the Further Development of Liver Segment Transplantation. In: Langenbeck's archive for surgery 373: 127-130. PMID 3287073
  • Pichlmayr R. et al. (1992), Organ transplantation: what are the limits? Transplantation Proceedings 24: 2404-2406. PMID 1465809
  • Pichlmayr R. and Schlitt HJ (1992), Liver transplantation - an important clinical therapy and a unique opportunity for research. Behring Institute Announcements 91: 191-196. PMID 1524566

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Transplantation on fachspezifikum.at
  2. ↑ When was the first liver transplant? on Who invented it
  3. ^ History , website of the Rudolf Pichlmayr Foundation, accessed on March 7, 2019.
  4. ↑ Return to life . In: Der Spiegel . No. 40 , 1995, pp. 218-221 ( online ).
  5. ↑ Spiegel article from September 8, 1997
  6. ^ Rudolf-Pichlmayr-Strasse. In: Diatra Journal. 2006, no. 1, p. 14.
  7. ↑ Short biography, history of the anesthesia department at MHH
personal data
SURNAME Pichlmayr, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German surgeon
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH August 29, 1997
Place of death Acapulco , Mexico