Théodore Tuffier

Théodore Tuffier

Théodore Tuffier
Born Théodore-Marin Tuffier
(1857-03-26)March 26, 1857
Bellême, Orne, France
Died October 27, 1929(1929-10-27) (aged 72)
Paris, France
Nationality French
Citizenship France
Occupation Surgeon
Relatives Madeleine Herbault (wife)
Jeanne (daughter)
Gabrielle (daughter)
Medical career
Specialism Pulmonary
Cardiovascular surgery
Spinal anaesthesia

Théodore-Marin Tuffier, known as Théodore Tuffier (26 March 1857 - 27 October 1929[1]) was a French surgeon. He was a pioneer[2] of pulmonary and cardiovascular surgery and of spinal anaesthesia.

Life

He was born at Bellême in Orne in 1857 and was an intern from 1879 onwards. He was appointed a hospital surgeon in 1887 and initially worked at the Hôpital de la Pitié, then at the hôpital Beaujon. In 1889 he was made an associate professor and in 1891 he carried out the first successful re-section of an upper right lung destroyed by tuberculosis.

Tuffier worked on cardio-vascular surgery alongside Alexis Carrel and carried out one of the first successful interventions for an aortic aneurysm[3] as well as the first dilation of an aortic stenosis.[2] He also worked on the first vascular prostheses.[4] He worked on 'triage' for the wounded during World War One.[5].

Théodore Tuffier married Madeleine Herbault (1867-1940) and they had two daughters, Jeanne and Gabrielle.[1] He is also notable as the last named French owner of the Fragonard painting A Young Girl Reading. He died in Paris in 1929. He is remembered in modern medicine through 'Tuffier's Line', an imaginary line connecting the iliac crests, used as a landmark for the L3/4 vertebral interspace in spinal anaesthesia and lumbar puncture.

Works

References

  1. 1 2 (in French) Geneanet
  2. 1 2 Dawn and Evolution of Cardiac Procedures, Marco Piccichè, Springer, 2013, p. 56
  3. ↑ (in French) Telegram from Dr. Tuffier to Alexis Carrel, Paris, 1 December 1915, with news of his planned operation on an aortic aneurism at the hôpital Beaujon
  4. ↑ (in French) Des origines de la prothèse vasculaire, German Nunez
  5. ↑ (in French) Le triage des blessés pendant la Grande Guerre


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