Jean Zuléma Amussat, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French surgeon
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Place of Birth: Saint-Maixent-l'École, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
About Jean Zuléma Amussat
- Jean Zuléma Amussat (21 November 1796 – 13 May 1856) was a French surgeon. Amussat was born in Saint-Maixent, Deux-Sèvres.
- He became a renowned physician whose primary contributions were in the field of genitourinary surgery.
- Most of his work was through a private practice he held in Paris.
- He is remembered for the eponymous "Amussat's method" or "torsion of the arteries", which is a procedure used to arrest arterial hemorrhaging.
- He was also an early practitioner of lithotripsy, which was a "minimally invasive" surgery to crush stones inside the bladder via the urethra.
- This operation necessitated use of a recently invented device known as a lithotrite. Amussat has several eponyms related to him: Amussat's fold: abnormal folds of the membranous urethra at the level of the seminal colliculus. Amussat's method: torsion of the arteries to prevent arterial hemorrhaging. Amussat's operation: extraperitoneal colostomy in the lumbar region for obstruction of the colon. Amussat's valves: Spiral valves within the cystic duct.
- The cystic duct is the anatomical structure that joins the gall bladder to the common bile duct.
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