Walther Kausch

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Walther Kausch , also Walter Kausch (born July 17, 1867 in Königsberg i. Pr. , † March 24, 1928 in Berlin ) was a German surgeon. He founded surgery on the pancreas.

Life

Walther Kausch grew up as the second of four children in Königsberg. From 1885 to 1890 he studied medicine at the Kaiser Wilhelms University of Strasbourg . In 1887 he became a member and later an honorary member of the Corps Palaio-Alsatia . In July 1890 as a doctor approved , habilitation he in Strasbourg about the diabetes mellitus in ducks and geese.

Breslau and Berlin

Family grave in Freiburg in Silesia until 1944

In 1887 Kausch met the already famous surgeon Johann von Mikulicz in Königsberg . Mikulicz, full professor in Breslau since 1890 , brought Kausch to the Surgical Clinic of the Silesian Friedrich-Wilhelms University in 1896 , where he became senior physician in 1902 (as such he was the superior of the then volunteer assistant Ferdinand Sauerbruch ). Having become a professor on December 20, 1902 , Kausch married Maria von Mikulicz, the second daughter of his boss, in 1903. After his death in 1905 he took over the provisional management of the world-famous clinic.

In the same year he was elected Medical Director of the Auguste Viktoria Hospital in Berlin- Schöneberg, which was still under construction at the time . In office he died on March 24, 1928 of a fulminant pulmonary artery embolism after perforated appendicitis - like his father-in-law from a disease in his own field. His three children Eva (1906), Dietrich (1911) and Klaus (1918) became doctors. At the age of 83, Klaus Kausch lamented the public ignorance of East German celebrities.

Pancreatic surgery

In August 1909, Kausch operated on the first partial duodenopancreatectomy in Berlin . In this procedure, which is still extremely difficult today, the head of the pancreas and a piece of the small intestine are removed; the excretory function of the posterior organ remains, however, due to a new connection with the duodenum . With this, Kausch founded pancreatic surgery 25 years before Allen Oldfather Whipple . In 1912 he published a detailed description of the operation and a discussion.

Long forgotten, Kausch's achievement has received due recognition in the last few decades. Owen H. Wangensteen , the former surgical professor of the University of Minnesota , said on September 11, 1979 in San Francisco : “It should be noted that radical pancreatic resection for cancer has returned to the Kausch maneuver. … It is, therefore, improper to speak of today's radical pancreatoduodenectomy as the Whipple procedure. ”Today, the duodenopancreatectomy is known as the Kausch-Whipple operation . In November 2009, the Charité dedicated an entire symposium to Kausch.

Honors

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 28/16
  2. ↑ Habilitation thesis: On diabetes mellitus in birds
  3. ↑ Ferdinand Sauerbruch: That was my life. Kindler & Schiermeyer, Bad Wörishofen 1951; Licensed edition for Bertelsmann Lesering, Gütersloh 1956, pp. 50 and 96 f.
  4. ↑ K. Kausch, Deutsches Ärzteblatt (2001)
  5. ↑ Contributions to clinical surgery 78 (1912), pp. 439–451
  6. ↑ 34th Symposium Current Surgery  ( 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.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / chi.charite.de  
personal data
SURNAME Kausch, Walther
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kausch, Walter Carl Eduard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German surgeon
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg i. Pr.
DATE OF DEATH March 24, 1928
Place of death Berlin