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TOMA IONESCU, PIONEER OF SYMPATHECTOMY
Author(s) -
Fahrer M.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
anz journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.426
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 1445-1433
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.2009.04931_16.x
Subject(s) - sympathectomy , medicine , lumbar sympathectomy , anesthesia
Born in 1860 in Ploesti Romania, Toma Ionescu (Thoma Jonnesco) studied Law and Medicine at the Paris University. He graduated MD in 1892 after working as an Intern of Paris Hospitals (1886–1892) and Prosector of Anatomy under Professor Poirier (1888–1890). Returned to Romania in 1895, he was appointed Professor of Surgery and Head of the Institute for Topographic and Surgical Anatomy of the Medical School in Bucharest. He performed the first total bilateral cervical sympathectomy in 1896. He also pioneered lumbar sympathectomy in 1900, sacral sympathectomy in 1901, and peri‐arterial sympathectomy in 1922. Until his death in 1926, Toma Ionescu was convinced that cervical sympathectomy was the radical cure for goitre, but he also used it to treat Angina Pectoris