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Anales de Radiología México 2012; 11 (3)

The exile of Alexander von Lichtenberg in Mexico

Alba QF, Alba GCA, Ávila AP

Language: Spanish
References: 37
Page: 143-149
PDF size: 83.82 Kb.


ABSTRACT

Dr. Alexander von Lichtenberg was born in Budapest in 1880 and graduated from the city’s Medical School in 1902, when x-rays were beginning to have applications beyond bones. In collaboration with Dr. Friedrich Voelcker, he introduced the indigo-carmine test and in 1905 they developed retrograde pyelography. In 1924, at St. Hedwig’s Catholic Hospital in Berlin, he founded a Urology Service which built a reputation as the best and largest in the world. In 1929, Von Lichtenberg and Moses Swick announced the successful development of an intravenous contrast medium that darkened the urinary tract, introducing excretory urography. Fleeing from Nazi persecution, Von Lichtenberg left Berlin and in 1939 settled in Mexico where, aided by his friendship with Health Minister Leonides Andrew Almazan, he was allowed to practice medicine freely. His aim was to work at one of Mexico’s major hospitals, but the urologists in charge of their urology units denied him the opportunity, ignoring his reputation, his experience in urology (which had earned him worldwide recognition), and his expertise in excretory urography, disregarding standing as the creator and leading authority on uroradiology. He worked as urologist at Hospital Londres, at the Ortiz Tirado Sanatorium and in 1944 was cofounder of the Durango Sanatorium, where he worked until his death on April 12, 1949, from complications related to diabetes.


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