Fariña-Pérez Luis A
Urology Department, Hospital Povisa, Vigo, Pontevedra, Spain.
Arch Esp Urol. 2010 May;63(4):269-74.
With the development and rise of abdominal laparoscopic techniques, the old Reverdin needle has had a revival, because it proved to be useful for the endoscopic closure of laparoscopic access ports, in order to lower the incidence of incisional hernias. Several new modifications of the Reverdin needle, with different names, are in the market now. This new use of an old instrument, prompted a review of the life and work of Jaques-Louis Reverdin, the Swiss surgeon trained in Paris and founder of the modern Swiss surgery.
Biographical and bibliographical review of Jaques-MLouis Reverdin and his contributions to surgery
Jaques-Louis Reverdin (1842-1929), born in Geneva, completed his medical studies in Paris, where he practised in several well-known hospitals such as La Pitié (with Goselin), Saint Louis (with Guérin), Lariboisiére, and Necker (with Guyon). In 1869 he published and presented in several meetings, a pioneering experience of successful free skin graft procedure, that is still performed in some cases and constitutes the first organ transplantation. In 1870 he presented his doctoral thesis "Etude sur l'uréthrotomie interne" with the expeience of his master Guyon (63 operations), gaining the Civiale prize and the bronze medal of the Paris Faculty of Medicine. He returned back to Geneva in 1872 to begin a long surgical practice and Faculty teaching, and he made seminal contributions to the knowledge of thyroid diseases, in particular on the clinical presentation of function deficiency following exeresis of the thyroid gland ( postoperative myxoedema). His contributions paralleled that made by Theodor Kocher in Bern, the surgeon that received in solitary the Nobel prize for these studies in 1909. With Jean6hyphen;Louis Prevost and Constant Picot, they founded the "Revue medicale de la Suisse romande", the most important Swiss medical journal of the 20th century. He is remembered in the field of Urology for a special needle designed to pass through a suture in a time were catgut and silk were the most employed sutures to control organ pedicles.
Reverdin, that pertains to the glorious epoch were surgery -performed under anaesthesia and with the antisepsis postulates of Lister and Pasteur-, reached most of his goals, is remembered for the first human transplant (skin grafting), and, fortunately, one of the several surgical instrument he designed, the Reverdin needle, had a revival in current laparoscopic surgery.
随着腹部腹腔镜技术的发展与兴起，老式雷维尔丹针得以复兴，因为它被证明可用于腹腔镜穿刺口的内镜闭合，以降低切口疝的发生率。如今市面上有几种雷维尔丹针的新改良版本，名称各异。这种旧器械的新用途促使人们回顾雅克 - 路易·雷维尔丹的生平与工作，他是一位在巴黎接受培训的瑞士外科医生，也是现代瑞士外科学的奠基人。
对雅克 - 路易·雷维尔丹及其对外科学的贡献进行传记和文献综述
雅克 - 路易·雷维尔丹（1842 - 1929）出生于日内瓦，在巴黎完成医学学业，曾在多家知名医院行医，如拉皮蒂医院（与戈斯林共事）、圣路易医院（与盖兰共事）、拉里博伊斯ière医院和内克尔医院（与居永共事）。1869年，他发表并在多次会议上展示了成功进行游离皮肤移植手术的开创性经验，这种手术如今在某些情况下仍在进行，是首例器官移植。1870年，他提交了博士论文《尿道内切开术研究》，阐述了其导师居永的经验（63例手术），获得了西维阿勒奖和巴黎医学院的铜牌。1872年他回到日内瓦，开始了漫长的外科实践和学院教学工作，他对甲状腺疾病的知识做出了开创性贡献，尤其是关于甲状腺切除术后功能减退的临床表现（术后黏液性水肿）。他的贡献与伯尔尼的西奥多·科赫尔相当，后者因这些研究于1909年独自获得诺贝尔奖。他与让 - 路易·普雷沃斯特和康斯坦特·皮科一起创办了《瑞士罗曼德医学杂志》，这是20世纪最重要的瑞士医学期刊。他在泌尿外科领域因一种特殊的针而被铭记，在当时肠线和丝线是控制器官蒂部最常用缝线的时期，这种针用于穿过缝线。
雷维尔丹生活在麻醉下进行手术且遵循李斯特和巴斯德的防腐原则的辉煌时代，他实现了大部分目标，因首例人体移植（皮肤移植）而被铭记，幸运的是，他设计的几种外科器械之一——雷维尔丹针，在当前的腹腔镜手术中得以复兴。
