Wilhelm Conrad Ramstedt was a German surgeon remembered for describing Ramstedt's operation.
10 Facts About Conrad Ramstedt
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Conrad Ramstedt was born in 1867 in Hamersleben, Province of Saxony, Prussia, the son of physician Constantin Ramstedt.
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Conrad Ramstedt was educated at the gymnasium in Magdeburg before studying medicine at Heidelberg, Berlin and finally Halle from where he qualified in 1894.
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Conrad Ramstedt became assistant in the University Surgical Clinic in Halle under Fritz Gustav von Bramann from 1895 to 1901.
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Conrad Ramstedt continued operating until the age of 80 when he was stopped by failing eyesight; he died at the age of 96 in Munster.
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On 23 August 1911 Conrad Ramstedt operated on the first case of pyloric stenosis he had seen.
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Conrad Ramstedt had decided to perform a pyloroplasty, which involved incising the pyloric muscle longitudinally and then closing the defect by suturing the muscle back together transversely.
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Conrad Ramstedt performed the longitudinal incision, relieving the obstruction, but found that the sutures tore out through the muscle when he attempted to close the incision.
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Conrad Ramstedt elected to cover the defect with an omental patch, realising that it was not necessary to suture the pyloric muscle.
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Conrad Ramstedt performed a second pyloromyotomy in 1912, and did not use an omental patch on the second occasion.