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Paul Georges Dieulafoy
French physician, born November 18, 1839, Toulouse; died August 16, 1911, Paris.
Associated eponyms:
Dieulafoy's apparatus
A suction pump to evacuate liquid from the pleura.
Dieulafoy's erosion
Simple mucosal erosion or ulcer complicating pneumonia and causing upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage.
Dieulafoy's lesion
A rare vascular lesion causing gastrointestinal bleeding.
Dieulafoy's pancreatic crisis
Symptoms of acute abdomen at the onset of a haemorrhagic pancreatitis.
Dieulafoy's triad
Hypersensitivity of the skin, tenderness and muscular contraction at McBurney’s point in acute appendicitis.
Dieulafoy's vascular malformation of the stomach
A rare defect of the gastrointestinal mucosa.
Biography:
Paul Georges Dieulafoy studied in Paris and received his doctorate there in 1869. He was professor agrégé and Médecin des hôpitaux in Paris, becoming chief of medical services at the Hôtel-Dieu. He worked on numerous topics including typhoid, Bright's disease and appendicitis. He wrote a manual on pathology and was elected president of the French Académie de Médecine in 1910. As a teacher Dieulafoy influenced many graduates.
Bibliography:
- De la mort subite dans la fièvre typhoïde. Doctoral thesis, 1869.
- De l’aspiration pneumatique sous-coutanée. Méthode de diagnostic et de traitement.
Paris, 1870; English edition simultaneously in London.
- Du diagnostic et du traitement des kystes hydatiques et des abscès du foie par aspiration. Paper, Paris, 1872.
- Du diagnostic et du traitement des épanchements aigus et chroniques de la plèvre par aspiration. Paper, Paris, 1872.
- Traité de l´aspiration des liquides morbides. Méthode médico-chirurgicale de diagnostic et de traitement. Paris, Masson and Londonm, 1873. 483 pages.
- De la contagion. Concours thesis; Paris, 1872.
- Des progrés réalisés par la physiologie expérimentale dans la connaissance des maladies du système nerveux. Paris, 1875.
- Manuel de pathologie interne. Paris, 1880-1884.
- Clinique médicale de l'Hôtel-Dieu de Paris.
3 volumes. Paris, 1899, 1900, 1903, 1907, 1910.
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