Louis Gallavardin
Louis- Bénédict Gallavardin ( born August 20, 1875 in Lyon, France, † December 1, 1957 in Lyon) was a French cardiologist.
Family
His father Jean -Pierre Gallavardin was a renowned doctor who treated with homeopathy. Gallavardin was one of ten children in the family and had to take care of after the death of his father already at an early age even to his livelihood. By his marriage in 1906 Gallavardin stood in kinship relationship to the philanthropists Félix Mangini and the surgeon Léon Bérard. His son Léon Gallavardin also worked as a cardiologist, another son, Robert (1913-1952), as a psychiatrist.
Education and work
After the basic education and studied medicine at the University of Lyon, he received his doctorate as the Internal hôpitaux ( 1900). Raymond Tripier, professor of pathological anatomy in Lyon, had Gallavardin support after the death of his father and motivated to continue his medical career, put him at the Hôtel de Dieu under as an assistant. 1902 reached Gallavardin the title of Doctor of hôpitaux, the beginning of an extraordinary medical career. In 1905 he decided to turn to the new field of cardiology. Gallavardin repeatedly visited Thomas Lewis (1881-1945) in London and sent him occasionally ECG curves. In addition, he met in 1913 with Karel Frederik Wenckebach ( 1864-1940 ) and met Rothenberger in Vienna. By the year 1928 Gallavardin worked at various hospitals in Lyon, before retiring after another 25 years of private practice activity from the profession.
Performance
Gallavardin was one of the leading cardiologists in France in the early 20th century. Its special merit were working for cardiac arrhythmia and the introduction of the arterial blood pressure measurement in clinical practice.
As a first result of his cardiac activity published in 1908 a treatise on the diseases of the heart and aorta. Gallavardin had dealt with all the contemporary method of blood pressure measurement until 1921, explored the basics of this diagnostic technique, weighing their pros and cons against each other ( Gallavardin - Manschettte ). Other main areas of work were cardiac arrhythmias and angina pectoris. In 1910 he installed the first time in France a string galvanometer in Lyon for recording electrocardiograms for cardiac diagnosis. 1920 described Gallavardin the " terminal ventricular tachycardia ", 1922, and the extra-systolic ventricular Salvenextrasystolie form of supraventricular paroxysmal tachycardia ( Gallavardin tachycardia ), also examined Knotenbradykardien.
During World War II, he researched " neurotic tachycardia " at soldiers. In the field of angina pectoris he dealt with angina special shapes and differentiation of syphilitic and atheromatous angina, 1948, he presented a compendium of cardiac examination technique.
He was an expert auscultation and contributed to the identification of heart sounds significantly ( mesosystolische noise, dual of mitral stenosis, gallop sound). He dealt with infective endocarditis (1921-1928), the clinical ECG Description of syncope in aortic stenosis (1933-1938), the clinical forms of arterial inflammation and put the first French description of rheumatic myocardial Aschoff nodules with before.
1898-1946 published more than 360 publications Gallavardins. He was a knight of the Legion of Honor, President of the French Society of Cardiology (1946-1948), Vice- President of the first World Congress of Cardiology (1950) and a corresponding member of many academic and scientific societies.
Works
- Dégénérescence Graisseuse you Myocarde. 1900
- La Tension Arterial en Clinique. Paris 1910 1921
- Sur un nouveau brassard sphygmomanométrique. Press Med 30 (1922) 776
- De la tachycardia paroxystique à center excitable. Arch times Coeur 15 (1922 ) 1
- Extrasystoles ventriculaire à paroxysmes tachycardiques prolongés. Arch times Coeur 15 (1922) 298
- Extrasystoles auriculaire à paroxysmes tachycardiques. Arch times Coeur 15 (1922) 774