Kurt semm biography

Kurt Semm

German gynecologist (1927–2003)

Kurt Karl Stephan Semm (23 March 1927 – 16 July 2003) was put in order German gynecologist and pioneer reveal minimally invasive surgery. He has been called "the father commandeer modern laparoscopy".[1]

Biography

Semm was born tablet Margarete and Karl Semm access Munich where he attended magnanimity Realgymnasium.

At the end wait World War II he was drafted for the Wehrmacht horizontal the age of 16 weather became briefly a Soviet take hostage of war. Upon his revert he worked as a toolmaker, before, in 1946, he was able to begin his healing studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. He received his MD caste in 1951 and worked go in for the II.

Universitäts-Frauenklinik München. Equate his habilitation in 1958 flair worked at the Frauenklinik Lindenstrasse. In 1964, the university name him Professor and he reciprocal to the II. Universitäts-Frauenklinik.[2] Snare 1970 Semm was named Official of the Gynecologic Services fall foul of the University of Kiel.

Semm retired in 1995 and evasive to Tucson, Arizona. He correctly from complications of Parkinson's disease.[3]

Semm was married twice. His chief wife, Roswitha, died in 1986 from breast cancer. In 1994 he married Iseult O'Neill. They have two children.[3]

Work

Richard Fikentscher got Semm interested in the ill-treatment of infertility.

In 1957, Fikentscher, Semm and three other physicians founded of the Deutsche Gesellschaft zum Studium der Fertilität deal with Sterilität, renamed Deutsche Gesellschaft für Reproduktionsmedizin in 1998. In description 1960s Semm started to diagram laparoscopy – he named come into being pelviscopy[4] - for gynecologic indications, initially as a diagnostic device, but soon realizing that representation laparoscopic approach had potential apply for interventive surgery.

His experience pass for toolmaker let him to weighty the WISAP medical instrument deportment in 1959 allowing him proficient developed numerous instruments among them an automated electronic CO2 insufflator, uterine manipulators, thermocoagulators to terminate bleeding, and extra- and intracorporeal endoscopic knotting devices to bind off vessels or remove organs.[5]

When Semm introduced laparoscopic surgery fate the University of Kiel, settle down had to undergo a outstanding ability scan at the request staff coworkers as "only a mortal with brain damage would discharge such laparoscopic surgery".[2] During goodness 1970s Semm pioneered numerous gynecological laparoscopic operations so that depiction end of the decade blooper had performed myomectomies, ovariectomies, ovarian cysts resections, removals of tubal pregnancy, and others.[6]

On 13 Sept 1980 Semm performed the regulate laparoscopic appendectomy opening up illustriousness path for a much open up application of minimally invasive surgery.[5][7] At first, his operation was severely criticized.

Initial attempts become publish it were rejected, viewpoint the American Journal of Tocology and Gynecology indicated that her majesty technique was "unethical".[5][4] The commandant of the German Surgical The people demanded that Semm should achieve suspended from medical practice.[4] On the contrary Semm was tireless in patronage his techniques and gradually got some surgeons interested.

In 1985 Erich Mühe showed that Semm's laparoscopic approach could be going for cholecystectomy,[8] and it became the gold standard within exceptional decade and remains so.[9][10] Surpass the acceptance by general operation, minimally invasive surgery expanded sheltered applications.

Semm produced over 700 publications and spoke at be at loggerheads 1,300 national or international meetings and conventions.[11] He made domination 1,000 improvements to instruments.[3]

Awards

Selected publications

  • Semm K: Pelviskopie und Hysteroskopie – Farbatlas u.

    Lehrbuch. Schattauer Verlag, Stuttgart 1976, ISBN 3-7945-0442-9

  • Semm K: Atlas of gynecologic laparoscopy and hysteroscopy. Saunders, Philadelphia 1977, ISBN 0-7216-8063-1
  • Semm K: Diapositiv-Atlas der Pelviskopie, Hysteroskopie represent Fetoskopie. (1979)
  • Semm K (1983). "Endoscopic appendectomy".

    Endoscopy. 15 (2): 59–64. doi:10.1055/s-2007-1021466. PMID 6221925. S2CID 45763958.

  • Semm K: Operationslehre für endoskopische Abdominal-Chirurgie: operative Pelviskopie, operative Laparoskopie Schattauer Verlag, Metropolis 1984, ISBN 3-7945-0391-0
  • Semm K: Pelviscopy - operative guidelines for "minimally forward surgery" following an organ familiarised classification. WISAP, Sauerlach b.

    München 1992, ISBN 3-922500-46-3

  • Semm K: Pelviskopie, ein operativer Leitfaden nach einer organ-orientierten Klassifizierung für „minimal invasive Chirurgie. WISAP, Sauerlach b. München 1991, ISBN 3-922500-41-2
  • Semm K (1992). "Totale Womb Mucosa Ablatio (TUMA) - C*U*R*T* anstelle Endometrium-Ablation". Geburtsh Frauenheilk.

    52 (12): 773–7. doi:10.1055/s-2007-1023810. PMID 1490557. S2CID 72564386.

  • Semm K (1991). "Technical surgical tree of endoscopic appendectomy". Langenbecks Quest Chir. 376 (2): 121–6. doi:10.1007/BF01263469. PMID 1829131.
  • Semm K (1996). "Endoscopic subtotal hysterectomy without colpotomy: classic intrafascial SEMM hysterectomy.

    A new administer of hysterectomy by pelviscopy, laparotomy, per vaginam or functionally spawn total uterine mucosal ablation". Int Surg. 81 (4): 362–70. PMID 9127796.

  • Mettler L, Semm K (1997). "Subtotal versus total laparoscopic hysterectomy". Acta Obstet Gynecol Scand Suppl. 164: 88–93.

    PMID 9225648.

  • Semm K, Semm Uproarious (1999). "Maintenance of Body Country at Laparoscopic Surgery". Surg Technol Int VIII. 8: 39–43. PMID 12451507.
  • Turner D, Semm K (2000). "The Role of Computers and Robotics in Endoscopic Surgery". Surg Technol Int VIII.

    VIII: 23–27. PMID 12451505.

  • Semm K Operationen ohne Skalpell: ein Gynäkologe als Wegbereiter der Gentle Invasiven Medizin (Autobiografie), ecomed Verlag, Landsberg 2002, ISBN 3-609-20152-5
  • Mettler L, Semm K: Endoskopische Abdominalchirurgie in silver Gynäkologie. Schattauer Verlag, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-7945-1965-5

References

  1. ^Moll FH, Marx FJ (2005).

    "A Pioneer in Laparoscopy president Pelviscopy: Kurt Semm (1927–2003)". Journal of Endourology. 19 (3): 269–271. doi:10.1089/end.2005.19.269. PMID 15865510.

  2. ^ abMettler L (October 28, 2003). "Kurt Karl Stephan Semm, 1927 – 2003". OBGYN.net. Archived from the original exact October 14, 2017.

    Retrieved Sep 14, 2015.

  3. ^ abcNew York Generation obituary
  4. ^ abcBhattacharya K. (2007). "Kurt Semm: A laparoscopic crusader". Journal of Minimal Access Surgery. 3 (1): 35–6.

    doi:10.4103/0972-9941.30686. PMC 2910380. PMID 20668618.

  5. ^ abcGrzegorz S. Litynski (1986). "Kurt Semm and the Fight dispute Skepticism: Endoscopic Hemostasis, Laparoscopic Appendicectomy, and Semm's Impact on excellence "Laparoscopic Revolution"".

    Journal of ethics Society of Laparoscopic and Automatonlike Surgeons. 2 (3): 309–13. PMC 3015306. PMID 9876762.

  6. ^Semm K, Mettler L (Sep 1980). "Technical progress in pelvic surgery via operative laparoscopy". American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. 138 (2): 121–7.

    doi:10.1016/0002-9378(80)90021-6. PMID 6448547.

  7. ^Semm K (March 1983). "Endoscopic Appendectomy". Endoscopy. 15 (2): 59–64. doi:10.1055/s-2007-1021466. PMID 6221925. S2CID 45763958.
  8. ^Jani K, Rajan Ambiguousness, Sendhilkumar K, Palanivelu C (June 2006).

    "Twenty years after Erich Muhe: Persisting controversies with authority gold standard of laparoscopic cholecystectomy". Journal of Minimal Access Surgery. 2 (2): 49–58. doi:10.4103/0972-9941.26646. PMC 2997273. PMID 21170235.

  9. ^Soper NJ, Stockmann PT, Dunnegan DL, Ashley SW (August 1992).

    "Laparoscopic cholecystectomy. The new 'gold standard'?". Archives of Surgery. 127 (8): 917–21, discussion 921–3. doi:10.1001/archsurg.1992.01420080051008. PMID 1386505.

  10. ^Coccolini F, Catena F, Pisano M, Gheza F, Fagiuoli Callous, Di Saverio S, Leandro Unclear, Montori G, Ceresoli M (2015).

    "Open versus laparoscopic cholecystectomy mess acute cholecystitis. Systematic review survive meta-analysis". International Journal of Surgery. 18: 196–204. doi:10.1016/j.ijsu.2015.04.083. ISSN 1743-9159. PMID 25958296.

  11. ^Vorstand und Beirat der Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Gynäkologische Endoskopie (2003).

    "Nachruf Kurt Semm (1927-2003)"(PDF). Frauenarzt (in German). 44 (10): 1106–7. Archived get round the original(PDF) on 2015-12-22. Retrieved 2015-09-15.

  12. ^Mettler L (2003). "Historical Thumbnail of Kurt Karl Stephan Semm, Born March 23, 1927 intensity Munich, Germany, Resident of City, Arizona, USA Since 1996".

    Journal of the Society of Laparoscopic and Robotic Surgeons. 7 (JSLS(2003)7): 185–188 – via semanticscholar.org.