Education
1930 graduated Medical Faculty, 1st Moscow University
1930 graduated Medical Faculty, 1st Moscow University
1955 attended International Congress of Surgeons, Copenhagen, and toured surgical hospitals in Sweden. 1956 read paper on thoracic surgery at International Seminar of Medicine Students, Moscow. 1959 attended International Congress of Surgeons, Munich, and visited surgical clinics in Munich and Diisseldorf.
1960 read paper on restorative vascular surgery at All-Union Congress of Surgeons. Deputy Chairman, All-Union Society of Surgeons. Since 1958 member, Program Committee, International Assoc, of Surgeons.
Since 1961 honorary member, Polish Society of Surgeons. Editor, journal “Khirurgiya” (Surgery). Member, Editor Board, journal “Novy khirurgichesky arkhiv” (New Surgical Archives).
Со-Editor, “Surgery” section, “Bolshaya meditsinskaya entsiklopediya” (Large Medical Encyclopedia), 2nd edition. Executive Editor, long-established work on surgery and other publications. Specialist in: blood transfusion.
Oncology of vascular surgery. Surgery of thoracic organs. Surgical treatment of congenital and acquired vitium cordis.
Developed several original operation methods. First in USSR to operate for cancer of the esophagus. Developed new plastic operations, e.
G.: replacement of affected esophagus section in cases of cardiospasm by a diaphragmal pedicle graft, stitching the diaphragm graft into the constricted section of the esophagus. Diaphragmoplasty by polyvinyl alcohol in the treatment of diaphragmal relaxation, etc.
Popularized new method of blood transfusion into the aorta in cases of severe shock. Devised various modifications of operations on the heart and major vessels, e. G.
: application of a supporting semipursestring suture on the fibrous ring of the mitral valve for eliminating mitral insufficiency. Exsection or dissection of the stenotic portion of the pulmonary artery with subsequent artificial arteriectasis in Fallot’s tetrad. Replacement of an injured heart wall by a diaphragmal graft in aneurism of the heart.
One of the first Soviet surgeons to replace major arteries by plastic tubes. 1949-1951 Professor, and 1951-1956 Head, Chair of Faculty Surgery, Pediatric Faculty, 2nd Moscow Medicine Institute. Simultaneously Chief Surgeon, 4th Main Board, USSR Ministry of Health.
Religion is bad because it stops people thinking in a rational and objective way.
Member, Communist Party, since 1942.
Marxism–Leninism as the only truth could not, by its very nature, become outdated.