Contribution of Ivan Ivanovich Grekov to fundamental and practical surgery (to 150th anniversary)

Abstract

The article presents the main milestones of life and creative path of one of the leaders of Saint Petersburg and Leningrad school of surgeons of Ivan Ivanovich Grekov - doctor of medical Sciences, Professor, honored worker of science. Ivan Grekov published more than 150 scientific papers on surgery of lungs, heart, abdominal organs, heal wounds and etc. He was one of the first in Russia to introduce a method of surgical field treatment with tincture of iodine (1909). The best-known scientific works of I.I. Grekov are in the field of abdominal surgery. He developed methods of resection of the sigmoid colon (1910, 1924) implemented in practical surgery as the operation «Grekov I and Grekov II» (double-stage method of resection of the sigmoid and descending large intestine). He created to the method of ileocecal valve plastics during a spasm (Grekov method), methods of gut emptying at high and low intestinal obstruction (Grekov methods). For Hirschsprung’s disease he suggested producing the mobilization of sigmoid and rectum (operation Swenson - Grekov). He identified the functional and reflexive relationship of appendicitis with gastric ulcer, ileocecal valve with a pylorus and pointed out that in diseases of the cecum violations of motor and secretory functions of the stomach may occur. For the first time in Russia he successfully performed the operation of removal of a pancreas (1913). I.I. Grekov proposed modification of operations if the damage to the cruciate ligaments of the knee joint or resection of intestine in strangulated hernia took place; in 1903 successfully performed stitching of the heart wound, and in 1928 opened the cavity of the heart to remove the bullet. About 40 years he was working in the Obukhov hospital.

Keywords

I.I. Grekov / University of Dorpat / abdominal surgeon / surgery colon / surgery on the chest / heart surgery / Obukhov hospital / the journal of Surgery

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