Heinrich Schmelzer
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1967-1973 studied medicine in Cologne, Vienna and Heidelberg. 1974 Hardly anyone starts medical training with a desire to become a proctologist. In the middle of the 1970s, when the flattening and screwing of bone fractures was still a fascinating new ground, my interest was entirely in traumatology. But things should be different. Proctology was at that time still a stepkind of medicine. Whether general practitioners, dermatologists or gynecologists and urologists, all looked more or less competent. Necessary surgical procedures were left to assistants in the afternoon hours. The knowledge was available at a few centers, but only a few took care of it. Errors and anachronisms were uncritically traditioniert . The proctological case was regarded as an unpleasant trifle. 1976-1978 In the first years of my surgical training at the clinic Dr. Rinecker in Munich I was introduced to the "mysteries and abysses" of proctological diagnostics and treatment by a senior physician, who had acquired his proctological knowledge at the University of Würzburg. The complexity and subtlety of morphology and physiology anorectum which Stelzner, one of the great teachers of the time proctology, continence organ baptized, attracted me. 1979 I worked two months with the "Cap d'Anamur" (Rupert Neudeck) in the Cambodian refugee camps at the Thai border. 1980-1987 Specialist in General Surgery. At my clinic (LMU) I led the manometry (1981) and defecography a (1983), drew my pelvic floor , especially diagnosis and surgical treatment of rectocele and the technique of pulling operation, relativized the Crohn's myth regarding the fistulas, padlocked the first recto-neovaginalen fistulae in male transsexuals with a Rektumvollwandverschiebelappen ( blind plastic ) - is the method of choice for all other ano-recto-vaginal fistulas - took over the phenol almond oil in the sclerotherapy and translated the 1984 published book in English "Coloproctology" From Nicholls, London. His own lectures, lectures and publications accompanied the clinical work. 1988 Establishment of a clinic with the aim of being able to carry out operations on a daily surgical basis. At the same time supply of patient-hospitalized patients. 2015 Practice at 31.Dec.2015. Consiliarly I am always available. Teaching activities and clinical assignments on a fee basis are possible.
