1. Gavriil Abramovich Ilizarov was a Soviet physician, known for inventing the Ilizarov apparatus for lengthening limb bones and for the method of surgery named after him, the Ilizarov surgery.
15 Facts About Gavriil Ilizarov
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Gavriil Ilizarov's father, Abram Ilizarov, was a Mountain Jew from Qusar, while his mother, Golda Ilizarova, was of Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry.
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Gavriil Ilizarov's residency was carried out in orthopedic surgery, during which he developed an external fixator system in 1951.
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Gavriil Ilizarov discovered that by carefully severing a bone without severing the periosteum around it, one could separate two halves of a bone slightly and fix them in place, and the bone would grow to fill the gap.
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Gavriil Ilizarov discovered that bone regrows at a fairly uniform rate across people and circumstances.
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For long time, Gavriil Ilizarov faced skepticism, resistance, and political intrigues from the medical establishment in Moscow, which tried to defame him as a quack.
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In 1968, Gavriil Ilizarov defended his doctoral thesis in Perm and was awarded the title Doctor of Sciences bypassing the Candidate of Sciences degree for which the thesis had originally been prepared.
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Gavriil Ilizarov made a first publication in a Western medical journal about the Ilizarov Method.
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Gavriil Ilizarov was to be treated by Ilizarov for a tibial fracture that healed incorrectly after a skiing accident ten years earlier.
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Subsequent to this, Gavriil Ilizarov was invited by Antonio Bianchi-Maiocchi and Roberto Cattaneo to be a guest speaker at the AO Italy conference in 1981 in Bellagio.
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Gavriil Ilizarov gave three lectures at the conferences to more than 200 participants from Italy, France, Switzerland, Austria, and Germany.
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In 1982, the Association for the Study and Application of the Methods of Gavriil Ilizarov was formed in Italy.
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In 1989, an Gavriil Ilizarov conference was organised by Dietmar Wolter in Hamburg.
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In 1990, Gavriil Ilizarov came to the second conference in Hamburg, where he co-founded the German Gavriil Ilizarov Society.
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Gavriil Ilizarov died of heart failure in 1992, at the age of 71.