Joaquín María Albarrán y Domínguez, Cuban-born French urologist (Sagua, La Grande 09 May 1860 - Paris 17 January 1912)
ACHIEVEMENTS
Authored more than 317 publications
First to perform surgical retreat of kidney and prostate
First to insert urethral catheter on a bougie at the renal pelvis level
First performed planned nephrostomy
First to perform uretherolithotomy
First to note the importance of nephrostomy drainage in calculous annuria
First diagnosed cellular carcinoma in transition of renal pelvis (1903)
Created renal functional exploration
Described an oral hydraulic test for detecting tubular epithelial injury
Proposed early nephrectomy as treatment of unilateral renal tuberculosis (1897)
Described Escherichia coli as causating agent of collibaciluria or Albarrán’s disease (with Halle)
Observed Albarrán’s sign (urethral hemorrhage) in the presence of renal pelvic cancer (1903)
Presented a new classification system of bladder tumours
Clarified entero-renal septic view
Simplified urether catheterization
Developed perineal operation
Developed sterilizer for decontamination of probes
Developed vesical syringe and instillation syringe
Added a ear-screw to Nitze cystoscope for declining catheter (1896)
Designed catgut knitting for renal rupture
Designed metallic valves for prostatectomy
Designed a cystoscope for urethral catheterization (with Guyon) (1897)
Conceived moving claw for cystoscope (1897)
Vesical phantom for urethral catheterism
A number of urethral probes
Descripcion anatomica nueva: demonstração de la marcha que siguen los microbios para producirla
Un nouvelle varieté d’incontinence d’urine
EPONYMY
Albarrán urethrotrome
Albarrán test for detecting renal insufficiency investigating polyuria
Albarrán gland or medial lobe of prostate or Home lobe
Albarrán-Motz glands or sub cervical glands of urethra
Albarrán tubules
Albarrán onglet
Albarrán operation
Albarrán-Proust operation
Albarrán-Ormond syndrome
Desnos-Albarrán urethrotrome
Albarrán catheter
Albarrán lever
Albarrán-Guyon method
Albarran-Guyon law “the sickest kidney is the most constant under experimental polyuria” (1906)
Albarrán curvo-linear incision
Albarrán forceps
Albarrán point
Albarrán clamp
Albarrán nail
Israel-Albarrán incision
Albarrán cystoscope
Albarrán-Bazy costal point
Albarrán-Israel essential hematuria
Albarrán-Herz Boyer method or test for studying blood in urine
Albarrán radiated nephritis or pyonephritis
Albarrán experimental polyuria
Albarrán ilio pelvic pathway
Albarrán-Marion nephropexy
Albarrán-Surraco pyelotomy
OTHERS
President, First International Congress of Urology 1908
Medicine and Physiology Nobel Prize nominee 1912