Mathieu Jaboulay (1860-1913) and His Innovations in Vascular and General Surgery

Abstract

Mathieu Jaboulay (1860-1913) was an inventor in vascular and general surgery. He fabricated many new surgical techniques and instruments such as Jaboulay method for vascular sutures, Jaboulay anastomotic button, and Jaboulay amputation, known also as hemipelvectomy. In addition, he was a pioneer in heterologous transplantation and sympathectomy. He found death suddenly in a terrible train crash. He was a reputable Professor of Surgery at Lyon Faculty of Medicine with prestigious students in vascular surgery.

Evolution of Xenotransplantation as an Alternative to Shortage of Donors in Heart Transplantation

“…In the twentieth century, numerous attempts were conducted worldwide using nonhuman primate organs and mammals such as rabbits, sheep, and pigs. In 1906, Mathieu Jaboulay was credited with the first attempt to transplant pig and goat kidneys into patients with chronic kidney disease; both surgeries failed due to thrombosis of the grafts [8]. Ernst Unger tried in 1909 using a macaque's kidney, which ended up in a similar fate to Jaboulay's operations [9].…”

Heineke, Mikulicz, Jaboulay, and Finney: Innovators of Surgical Pyloroplasty

“…He completed his medical education in Lyon in 1884. 15 He joined the surgical faculty at Lyon and ascended to the Chair of Surgery at Lyon in 1892. Inspired by the 1894 assassination of French President Marie François Sadi Carnot, Jaboulay devised one of the earliest vascular anastomoses, using interrupted U-shaped sutures with intimal eversion.…”

“…16 His impact was felt throughout several fields in surgery, including suture-free intestinal anastomoses (“Jaboulay Button”), treatment of hydrocele (“Jaboulay’s Procedure”), and hemipelvectomy for cancer (“Jaboulay’s Amputation”). 15 He also pioneered xenotransplantation, using porcine and caprine kidneys to treat end-stage renal disease in 1906. 17 Jaboulay was unfortunately killed in a train derailment in 1913.…”

Alexis Carrel: The surgeon, the visionary, the Nobel Laureate

“…After a year of military service, he became an assistant in the Department of Surgery at the University Hospital of Lyon.There, he worked under Mathieu Jaboulay, a prestigious surgeon who pioneered the broad marginal confrontation method (i.e., the "Jaboulay's method") of arterial anastomosis. 1 Carrel was aware that Jaboulay had…”

“…There, he worked under Mathieu Jaboulay, a prestigious surgeon who pioneered the broad marginal confrontation method (i.e., the "Jaboulay's method") of arterial anastomosis. 1 Carrel was aware that Jaboulay had…”