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Nationality
  
France

Fields
  
Surgery

Education
  
University of Lyon


Role
  
Surgeon

Name
  
Rene Leriche

Books
  
Souvenirs de Ma Vie Morte

Rene Leriche Archives de France

Died
  
December 28, 1955, Cassis, France

René Leriche (12 October 1879, Roanne, Loire – 28 December 1955, Cassis, near Marseille) was a famous French surgeon.

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Eponymous terms

René Leriche gave his name to two syndromes:


  • Leriche's syndrome - Impotence and buttock claudication and absent pulses in the groin and legs due to saddle embolus or atherosclerosis at the aortic bifurcation.
  • Sudek-Leriche syndrome - Aseptic necrosis of bone following injury (also known as Sudek atrophy)
  • Career

    René Leriche QUOTES BY RENE LERICHE AZ Quotes

    Born in Roanne the son of a lawyer Leriche began his career in Lyon. In 1924 he was appointed Professor of Surgery at the University of Strasbourg. In 1927 he was made an honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He was the first surgeon to be made Professeur au Collège de France.

    René Leriche The Clinic of Professor Rene Leriche April 1938

    He was a technically gifted surgeon and had flair for teaching. This attracted students to him - many of whom became renowned in their own right. He emphasised the importance of regarding the patient as a whole - the holistic approach.

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    He devised a surgical procedure, the sympathectomy, to increase blood flow within arteries.

    René Leriche Ren Leriche Wikiwand

    He was awarded the Lister Medal in 1939 for his contributions to surgical science. The corresponding Lister Memorial Lecture, delivered that same year at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, was titled 'The Listerian Idea in 1939'.

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    Under Vichy he was appointed the first director of the national Medical Board (ordre des médecins) created by Pétain and so he participated in the exclusion politics of Jewish physicians. As many people engaged in collaboration with Vichy, he emerge from the war almost unscathed (see Bruno Halioua)

    In 1958, a French postage stamp was issued with his name and portrait on it.

    Personality

    Leriche was a flamboyant character who enjoyed French cuisine and fine wine. He had a fine collection of art (one of his patients was Matisse). He was an excellent public speaker who never needed notes.

    References

    René Leriche Wikipedia