Walther Kausch

Walther Kausch (* July 17, 1867 in Königsberg i Pr; † March 24, 1928 in Berlin) was a German surgeon. He founded the pancreatic surgery.

Life

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

Breslau and Berlin

1887 Kausch had met the already famous surgeon Johann von Mikulicz in Königsberg. Mikulicz, since 1890 professor in Breslau, took Kausch in 1896 at the Surgical Clinic of the Silesian Friedrich Wilhelm University. On 20 December 1902 became professor, married Kausch 1903 Maria von Mikulicz, the second daughter of his boss. After his death in 1905 he took over as acting head of the world-renowned clinic.

In the same year he was elected to the Medical Director of the then under construction Auguste -Viktoria - Hospital in Berlin. In office he died on March 24, 1928 of massive pulmonary embolism after a perforated appendicitis - like his father- a disease of its own discipline. His three children Eva (1906 ), Dietrich (1911 ) and Klaus (1918 ) were physicians. At the age of 83 years Klaus Kausch lamented the public ignorance about East German celebrities.

Pancreatic Surgery

In August 1909 Kausch operated in Berlin, the first partial pancreaticoduodenectomy. In this still extremely difficult engagement of the head of the pancreas and small intestine a piece to be removed; but the excretory function of the back rest member is retained by a new connection to the duodenum. Allen Oldfather Whipple 25 years before Kausch, thereby founding the pancreatic surgery. In 1912 he published a detailed operation description and discussion.

Long forgotten, learned Kauschs performance in the last decades due appreciation. Owen H. Wangensteen, the former surgical professor at the University of Minnesota, said on September 11, 1979 in San Francisco: " It Should Be Noted radical pancreatic resection for cancer did Has returned to the thimble maneuver. It is ..., THEREFORE, improper to speak of today 's radical pancreatoduodenectomy as the Whipple procedure. " The pancreaticoduodenectomy is now called the Kausch - Whipple operation. The Charité devoted Kausch in November 2009, an entire symposium.