Mathieu Jaboulay (5 July 1860 – 4 November 1913) was a French

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born in

Saint-Genis-Laval Saint-Genis-Laval () is a commune in the metropolis of Lyon in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of eastern France. The Lyon Observatory is located in this commune. History Saint-Genis-Laval draws its name from Saint Genis or Genest, a Roman act ...

, a city in the department of

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. He is remembered for introduction of new surgical procedures, as well as his work involving techniques of vascular

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. He studied and practiced medicine in

Lyon Lyon,, ; Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the third-largest city and second-largest metropolitan area of France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of t ...

, where in 1902 he became a professor of clinical surgery. Two of his better known students at Lyon were Alexis Carrel (1873-1944) and

René Leriche Henri Marie René Leriche (12 October 1879 – 28 December 1955) was a French vascular surgeon and physiologist. He was a specialist in pain, vascular surgery and the sympathetic trunk. He sensitized many who were mutilated in the first World w ...

(1879-1955). In 1892 he introduced the side-to-side

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, an operation used when the pylorus and proximal

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are badly scarred, and in 1894 he performed the first inter-ilio abdominal

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hemipelvectomy Hemipelvectomy, also known as a pelvic resection, is a surgical procedure that involves the removal of portion of the pelvic girdle. This procedure is most commonly performed to treat oncologic conditions of the pelvis. Hemipelvectomy can be furthe ...

, a surgery involving amputation of the entire leg through the

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. This operation is sometimes referred to as "Jaboulay's amputation". He is credited with performing the first sympathectomic operation for alleviation of vascular disease. He described this surgery in a treatise titled ''Chirurgie du grand sympathique et du corps thyroïde'' (Surgery of the sympathetic system and

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). Also, he introduced a procedure for arterial anastomosis (Jaboulay's method), and is the namesake of "Jaboulay's button", described as two buttonlike cylinders used in performing lateral

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anastomosis without the need of sutures.Jaboulay's button
@ Who Named It In 1906, Jaboulay made the first attempts at human

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when he transplanted pig and goat

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s into patients with chronic

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. The operations were unsuccessful.

Selected writings

* ''De la gastro-duodénostomie''. Archives provinciales de chirurgie,

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, 1892, 1: 551–554. * ''La désarticulation interilio-abdominale''. Lyon médical, 1894, 75: 507–510. Interilio-abdominal amputation first described. * ''Chirurgie du grand sympathique et du corps thyroïde (les différents goitres)''. Articles originaux at observations réunis et publiés par E. Martin. Paris, O. Doin, 1900. * ''Chirurgie des centres nerveux, des viscères et des membres''. two volumes. Lyon/Paris, 1902.

References

External links

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eMedicine
Renal Transplantation (Urology)

@ Who Named It {{DEFAULTSORT:Jaboulay, Mathieu 1860 births 1913 deaths People from Saint-Genis-Laval French surgeons