Leo Buerger

Leo Buerger (September 13, 1879 in Vienna; October 6, 1943 in New York) was an Austrian pathologist, surgeon and urologist.

Family

In 1880 his family emigrated to the United States.

Education

He visited several elementary in New York, Chicago and Philadelphia and joined the college in 1897 in New York City (B.A.). The general (M.A. 1901) and medical studies (College of Physicians and Surgeons, M.D. 1901) Buerger graduated from Columbia University in New York.

First Buerger worked at the Lenox Hill Hospital (1901-1904) and at the Mount Sinai Hospital (1904-05). Then he went as a volunteer in the surgical clinic at Wrocław and study visits to Vienna and Paris. From 1907 (to 1920) Buerger worked as a pathologist and surgeon at Mount Sinai Hospital. Later, as a surgeon, he still several other clinics New York (Beth David Hospital, Bronx Hospital, Wyckoff Heights Hospital, Brooklyn).

Buerger 1917 received a professorship at the medical Urology Outpatient Clinic New York, which he held until 1930. Then he took a position of the College of Medical Evangelists, Los Angeles (California), in a similar chair. He remained here for a short time and soon returned to New York back to work in private practice to work.

Publications

From Buerger alone or in collaboration with others, more than 160 articles in various scientific journals.

* Thrombo-Angiitis Obliterans: A study of the vascular lesions leading to presenile spontaneous gangrene. Am J Med Sci 136 (1908) 567
* The pathology of the vessels in cases of gangrene of the lower extremities due to so-called endarteritis obliterans. Proc NY Pathol Soc 8 (1908) 48 Proc Soc NY Pathol 8 (1908) 48
* Diseases of the Circulatory Extremities. 1924

References

* E. J. Wormer: Angiology - Phlebology. Syndromes and their creators. Munich 1991, pp 225-234
* P. Rentchnick: Le centenaire de la naissance du Dr Leo Buerger. 192 Méd Hygiène 38 (1980) 192
* G. W. Kaplan: Leo Buerger (1879-1973). Invest Urol 11 (1974) 342-3
* A. Birch: Leo Buerger, 1879-1943. Practitioner 211 (1973) 823
* S. Kagan: Jewish Medicine. Boston 1952, p. 71