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Eugen Bogdan Aburel
Born(1899-01-23)January 23, 1899
Galați, Kingdom of Romania
DiedDecember 16, 1975(1975-12-16) (aged 76)
Bucharest, Socialist Republic of Romania
NationalityRomanian
Alma materFaculty of Medicine of Iași
Known forfirst to employ lumbar plexus block and caudal epidural analgesia during childbirth
Scientific career
Fieldssurgery, gynaecology
InstitutionsTarnier Hospital [fr]
Boucicaut Hospital [fr]
Faculty of Medicine of Iași
Faculty of Medicine of Bucharest
Filantropia Hospital [ro]

Eugen Bogdan Aburel (January 23, 1899 – 16 December 1975) was a Romanian surgeon and obstetrician. He introduced innovative techniques in gynecologic surgery.[1]

He was born Galați; his father came from a family of Armenians of Moldavia, while his mother was a descendent of the family of metropolitan Veniamin Costache [ro].[2] After completing in 1917 his secondary studies at the Vasile Alecsandri High School in his native city, he attended the artillery military school in Botoșani, graduating with the rank of second lieutenant. He then studied at the Faculty of Medicine of Iași, obtaining his doctor in medicine degree in 1923 with thesis Contribuțiuni la tratamentul infecției puerperale.[2]

After deciding to specialize in obstetrics and gynecology, Aburel went in 1928 to Paris, where he worked at Tarnier [fr] and Boucicaut [fr] hospitals under professors Brindeau and Le Lorier. During this time, he also did research in the Physiology Department at Sorbonne University (under Louis Lapicque), and in the Laboratory of Applied Physiology at Henri-Rousselle Hospital. In 1933 he returned to Romania; three years later he was appointed Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Faculty of Medicine of Iași and in 1945 at the Faculty of Medicine of Bucharest.[3]

In 1931, Aburel was the first to describe blocking the lumbar plexus during early labor, followed by a caudal epidural injection for the expulsion phase.[4][5] In his work, he described using a continuous epidural catheter for pain relief during childbirth.[3][6]

From 1952 to 1969, he was director of the Clinical Hospital of Obstetrics and Gynecology Filantropia [ro];[7] during that time, he also practiced at the maternity wards of the Witting [ro], Colțea, and Polizu [ro] hospitals.[2] In the late 1950s, Aburel was investigated by the Securitate for the scientific contacts he had in the West and for some of his past associations. In this context, Theodor Burghele, the rector of the Faculty of Medicine, tried to dismiss him from his position as Chair of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department, but Aburel kept his position until his retirement in 1969.[2]

In 1968 he was elected a foreign corresponding member of the Académie Nationale de Médecine and in 1973 he was awarded the Ordre des Palmes académiques by the French Republic.[3] He died in Bucharest in 1975, at age 76.

Works

  • Contribuție la tratamentul infecției puerperale (1923)
  • Abces apendicular la stînga (1927)
  • L'Anesthésie locale continue (prolongée) en obstétrique (1931)
  • Considerații asupra durerii în obstetrică (1932)
  • Recherches sur les glandes endocrines pendent la vie intrautérine chez l'homme (collaborator, 1939)
  • Ginecologia (coordinator, 1959)
  • Obstetrică și ginecologie (coordinator, 1971)
  • La tuberculose génitale de la femme (collaborator, 1971)

See also

References

  1. ^ Collis, Rachel E.; Urquhart, John; Plaat, Felicity (2002). Textbook of Obstetric Anaesthesia. Cambridge University Press. p. 13. ISBN 1-900151-77-4.
  2. ^ a b c d Tilibașa, Emilian. "Eugen Aburel – un doctor luat în colimator de Securitate". Historia (in Romanian). Retrieved December 29, 2022.
  3. ^ a b c Curelaru, Ioan; Sandu, Lucian (June 1982). "Eugen Bogdan Aburel (1899–1975). The pioneer of regional analgesia for pain relief in childbirth". Anaesthesia. 37 (6): 663–669. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2044.1982.tb01279.x. PMID 6178307. S2CID 23183413.
  4. ^ Aburel, Eugen (1931). "L'Anesthésie locale continue (prolongée) en obstétrique". Bulletin de la Société d'Obstétrique et Gynécologie de Paris (in French). 20: 35–37.
  5. ^ Aldrete, J. Antonio; Sainz Cabrera, Humberto; Wright, Amos J. (2004). "Manuel Martinez Curbelo and Continuous Lumbar Epidural Anesthesia". Bulletin of Anesthesia History. 22 (4): 1–8. doi:10.1016/S1522-8649(04)50045-8. PMID 20503747.
  6. ^ Goerig, Michael; Freitag, Marc; Standl, Thomas (December 2002). "One hundred years of epidural anaesthesia—the men behind the technical development". International Congress Series. 1242: 203–212. doi:10.1016/s0531-5131(02)00770-7.
  7. ^ "Spitalul Clinic de Obstetrică și Ginecologie Filantropia". spitalulfilantropia.ro (in Romanian). Retrieved December 29, 2022.
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