About the first gastric surgeries performed in Saint Petersburg in the ХIХ century

Abstract

The article is devoted to the history of gastric surgery in Saint Petersburg (Russia) in the XIX century. In the last decades of the 19th century, there was a breakthrough in surgery - surgeons from all over the world began to operate on the stomach. For the first time in Saint Petersburg and in Russia, Russian surgeons M.K. Kitaevsky, D.M. Monastyrsky and N.V. Ekk performed stomach resection for cancer by Billroth I method (M.K. Kitaevsky, 16.07.1881) and gastroenteroanastomosis for cicatrical pyloric stenosis (N.D. Monastyrsky, 13.03.1882), and at the meeting of the Society of Russian Doctors in Saint Petersburg in May 1882, V. Ekk proposed to overlap an anastomosis between the stump of the resected stomach and the loop of the small intestine that was realized by the Viennese surgeon T. Billroth only 3 years later in 1885, and got the name of the modification of gastric resection by the Billrot II method. It should be noted that M.K. Kitaevsky and N.D. Monastyrsky worked at Petropavlovsky Hospital - on the basis of which the Women's Medical Institute was established in 1897 (now the Pavlov First Saint Petersburg State Medical University).