Joaquín María Albarrán y Domínguez, Cuban-born French urologist (Sagua, La Grande 09 May 1860 - Paris 17 January 1912)
ACHIEVEMENTS
Authored more than 317 publications
First to perform surgical retreat of kidney and prostate First to insert urethral catheter on a bougie at the renal pelvis level First performed planned nephrostomy First to perform uretherolithotomy First to note the importance of nephrostomy drainage in calculous annuria First diagnosed cellular carcinoma in transition of renal pelvis (1903) Created renal functional exploration Described an oral hydraulic test for detecting tubular epithelial injury Proposed early nephrectomy as treatment of unilateral renal tuberculosis (1897) Described Escherichia coli as causating agent of collibaciluria or Albarrán’s disease (with Halle) Observed Albarrán’s sign (urethral hemorrhage) in the presence of renal pelvic cancer (1903) Presented a new classification system of bladder tumours Clarified entero-renal septic view Simplified urether catheterization Developed perineal operation Developed sterilizer for decontamination of probes Developed vesical syringe and instillation syringe Added a ear-screw to Nitze cystoscope for declining catheter (1896) Designed catgut knitting for renal rupture Designed metallic valves for prostatectomy Designed a cystoscope for urethral catheterization (with Guyon) (1897) Conceived moving claw for cystoscope (1897) Vesical phantom for urethral catheterism A number of urethral probes Descripcion anatomica nueva: demonstração de la marcha que siguen los microbios para producirla
Un nouvelle varieté d’incontinence d’urine
EPONYMY Albarrán urethrotrome Albarrán test for detecting renal insufficiency investigating polyuria Albarrán gland or medial lobe of prostate or Home lobe Albarrán-Motz glands or sub cervical glands of urethra Albarrán tubules Albarrán onglet Albarrán operation Albarrán-Proust operation Albarrán-Ormond syndrome Desnos-Albarrán urethrotrome Albarrán catheter Albarrán lever Albarrán-Guyon method Albarran-Guyon law “the sickest kidney is the most constant under experimental polyuria” (1906) Albarrán curvo-linear incision Albarrán forceps Albarrán point Albarrán clamp Albarrán nail Israel-Albarrán incision Albarrán cystoscope Albarrán-Bazy costal point Albarrán-Israel essential hematuria
Albarrán-Herz Boyer method or test for studying blood in urine Albarrán radiated nephritis or pyonephritis Albarrán experimental polyuria Albarrán ilio pelvic pathway Albarrán-Marion nephropexy Albarrán-Surraco pyelotomy
OTHERS
President, First International Congress of Urology 1908 Medicine and Physiology Nobel Prize nominee 1912
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