Baron Guillaume Dupuytren: when brilliance combats professionalism.

Collagenase Treatment in Dupuytren Contractures: A Review of the Current State Versus Future Needs

Dupuytren disease is highly prevalent and the finger contractures can be very extensile, compromising the patients' hand function. To restore full function, contractures have been addressed by cutting the causative strands for nearly 200 years, ever since Baron Guillaume Dupuytren demonstrated his technique at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Surgery can be minimal (fasciotomy) or quite...

Baron Dupuytren (1777-1835) and congenital dislocation of the hip.

dren's fractures, though perhaps he is best known for his description in 1832 of the contracture of the palmar aponeurosis that was named after him. However, in retrospect, probably his most important contribution was in relation to congenital dislocation of the hip. Although this condition had been discussed in Hippocratic times and mentioned occasionally by other writers, it is to Dupuytren that

Hemodynamic Monitoring

1 Intensive Care Unit, University Hospital Ambroise Paré, Boulogne 92104, France 2Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Western Clinical School, Nepean Hospital, Penrith, NSW 2751, Australia 3Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Long Island Jewish Medical Center, 410 Lakeville Road, New Hyde Park, NY 11040, USA 4Medical-Surgical Intensive Care Unit, Dupuytren Teaching Hospi...

The Treatment of Dupuytren's Contracture.

ALTHOUGH Sir Astley Cooper gave a clinical description of this condition in I822 in this country, it was Baron Guillaume Dupuytren ten years later in Paris, who identified the nature of the disorder by dissection as a contracture of the palmar fascia, and suggested fasciotomy as a method of treatment (1832). The cause of the disorder remains unknown, but it seems certain that a hereditary predi...

Incidence and Predictors of Early Recanalization After Intravenous Thrombolysis