Yustin Djanelidze
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Yustin Djanelidze (born 27 October 1883, died 14 January 1950).
Yustin Y. Djanelidze is one of the pioneers of cardiac surgery in the 20th century. The era of successful aortic surgery began on 27 October 1913 when Djanelidze sutured a penetrating injury of the ascending aorta in St. Petersburg, Russia. This was the first case of successful ascending aorta repair described in the world medical literature. Yustin Y. Djanelidze was born on 2 August 1883 in the village of Samtredia, Georgia, in the Russian Empire. In 1900, he began his studies at the Medical Faculty of the University of Kharkov. In 1905, he moved to Switzerland and continued his study at the University of Geneva. Upon graduating with honors in 1909, Djanelidze returned to Russia, where he passed the required exams and was qualified as a physician in 1910. He successfully defended his doctoral dissertation the next year, and in 1912 he was appointed assistant surgeon at the Petropavlovskaia Infirmary in St. Petersburg, where Professor Kadian was the chief surgeon. During World War I, Djanelidze was a senior surgeon in a military field hospital. After the war, he returned to St.Petersburg and headed the Department of Surgery at the Petropavlovskaia Infirmary. In 1927 Djanelidze published a world first monograph about heart injuries. From 1928 until his death in 1950, Djanelidze headed the Department of Surgery at the Women’s Medical Institute. In 1932, he was also appointed head of the newly opened Emergency Institute in Leningrad, which in December of 1950 was renamed the Djanelidze Research Institute of Emergency Medicine in his honor. During World War II, Djanelidze was Surgeon-in-Chief of the Soviet Navy. In 1947, he was elected chairman of the Russian Surgical Society. Djanelidze died on 14 January 1950.
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- Djanelidze YY. The case of a penetrating wound of the heart. Ruskii Vrach 1912;38:1582-3.
- Djanelidze YY. Cardiac wounds treated at the Surgical Department of Petropavlovskaia Infirmary in Petersburg. Ruskii Vrach 1913;44:1535-8.
- Djanelidze YY. A case of the repair of an injury of the ascending aorta. Khir Arkhiv Veniaminova 1916;1:87-102.
- Djanelidze YY. Long-term results of the surgical treatment of heartinjuries.Vestnik Khirurgii 1924;4:8-31.
- Djanelidze YY. Concomitant injuries of the coronary vessels at the time of heart injury. Vestnik Khirurgii 1925;5:14-33.
- Djanelidze YY. Cardiac injuries and their surgical treatment. Leningrad, 1927.
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- Djanelidze YY. Kamenchik MG. One thousand cases of surgical treatment of heart injuries. Novii KhirArkhiv 1941;49:100-20.
- V.Alexi-Meskishvili, I.E.Konstantinov: "Yustin Y. Djanelidze and the first siccessful repair of an injured ascending aorta", Texas Heart Journal 2000;27:113-116
