Joaquín Albarrán

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

Life

1878 Joaquin Albarrán went to Paris, where he studied under many renowned doctors and worked. After Albarráns assessment of the anatomist Louis -Antoine Ranvier (1835-1922) and Jean Casimir Félix Guyon of Urology (1831-1920) had a major influence his career. In 1906, he was the successor of Guyon as Director of the Urology Clinic at the " Hôpital Necker " in the 15th arrondissement in Paris.

In the early days of his career Albarrán dealt with microbiology and histopathology, later moving to urology, for whose development he made ​​major contributions. He was the first doctor who performed a perineal prostatectomy in France. He is the invention of a device for controlling a catheter at the Cystoskopspitze for catheterization of the ureters due to. The device is known as Albarrán lever and now it is used in gastroenterology endoscopes for intubation of bile and pancreatic duct. Albarrán was three times awarded the Goddard Price and 1912, nominated for the Nobel Prize.

Eponyms

  • " Albarrán - Ormond syndrome ": inflammatory retroperitoneal fibrosis; named after the American Urological John Kelso Ormond (1886-1978), also named as Gerota's syndrome after the Romanian anatomist Dimitrie Gerota and urologists ( 1867-1939 ).
  • " Albarrán glands ": subtrigonale tiny glands of the urinary bladder.
  • " Albarrán sign ": clinical sign of renal pelvic carcinoma.

Writings

  • Anatomy physiology pathologique et de la rétention de l' urine. Masson, Paris, 1890 (together with Jean Casimir Félix Guyon ).
  • Sur un série de quarante opérations Pratiques sur la pure. In: Revue de chirurgie, vol 16 (1896 ), pp. 882-884 ( first planned nephrostomy ).
  • Operative surgery of the urinary tract. Normal anatomy and surgical pathological anatomy ( " Médecine opératoire of voies urinaires "). Fischer, Jena, 1910 ( Albarran was the first surgeon in France, a perineal prostatectomy performed ).
  • Étude sur le purely of urinaires. Dissertation, University of Paris, 1889.
  • Les tumeurs de la vessie. Steinheil, Paris 1892.
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