Background
Dieulafoy was born in Toulouse.
physician university professor
Dieulafoy was born in Toulouse.
He studied medicine in Paris and earned his doctorate in 1869. He perfected a pump-like device for use in thoracentesis, and extensively studied pleurisy and liver conditions including hydatid disease and epidemic hepatitis.
He is best known for his study of acute appendicitis and his description of Dieulafoy"s lesion, a rare cause of gastric bleeding. Dieulafoy later became Chief of Medicine at the famed Hôtel-Dieu de Paris, taught pathology in the University of Paris, and was elected president of the French Academy of Medicine in 1910. He died in Paris on August 16, 1911.
Dieulafoy"s lesion: the protrusion of an arteriole through the gastric mucosa, usually found just below the gastroesophageal junction.
Subsequent rupture of the arteriole is a rare cause of upper gastrointestinal bleeding Dieulafoy"s triad: hyperesthesia of the skin, exquisite tenderness and guarding over McBurney"s point, considered a classic sign of acute appendicitis Dieulafoy"s apparatus: a pump-like device to evacuate fluid from the pleural cavity.
Quotations: "Le traitement médical de l"appendicite aiguë n"existe pas (The medical treatment of acute appendicitis does not exist)".