Albert Hoffa
Albert Hoffa (1859-1907) was a German orthopedic surgeon.
Hoffa defined in this work the scope and methodology of orthopaedics in his Textbook of Orthopaedic surgery in 1891. He defined both operative and conservative forms of treatment; and allowed orthopaedics to gain acceptance as a special area by many physicians within German-speaking countries.
Hoffa is eponymously affiliated with a distal femur fracture (1888); an operation for congenital hip dislocations (1890); the development of a system of massage therapy, the Hoffa system (1893); and the Hoffa fat pad
Biography
- Born 31 March 1859 Richmond, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa the son of a German physician
- Medical studies at Marburg and Freiburg
- 1886 – Founded the first private orthopedic clinic in Germany, in Würzburg, Bavaria.
- 1892 – Founded Zeitschrift Für Orthopädische Chirurgie Einschließlich Der Heilgymnastik Und Massage.
- 1895 – Associated professor in orthopaedics at Würzburg University
- 1902 – Succeeded Julius Wolff (1836-1902) as Professor in orthopaedics in Berlin
- Died 1907
Medical Eponyms
Hoffa fracture [Busch-Hoffa fracture] (1888)
Unicondylar coronal fracture of the lateral femoral condyle. Rare intra-articular distal femur injury. Axial compression to the knee with transmission of the ground reaction force through the tibial plateau to the femoral condyles.
Hoffa fracture: Although Hoffa did describe this fracture, he was neither the first to do so, nor did he publish this description in 1904.
Other eponyms
- Hoffa system of therapeutic massage (1893)
- Hoffa A. Technik der Massage. 1893
- Hoffa fat pad disease (1904)
- Hoffa’s fat pad disease is characterized by chronic knee pain mostly under the patella.
- Hoffa A. Influence of adipose tissue with regard to the pathology of the knee joint. JAMA. 1904;43:795–796.
Major Publications
- Hoffa A. Die Natur des Milzbrand-Giftes. 1886
- Hoffa A. Lehrbuch der fracturen und luxationen für ärzte und studierende. 1888 [Hoffa fracture: Fracturen des unteren Femurendes]
- Hoffa A. Zur operativen Behandlung der angeborenen Hüftgelenks-verrenkungen mit Krankenvorstellung. Wiener Medizinische Presse. 1890; XXXI: 763
- Hoffa A. Technik der Massage. 1893
- Hoffa A. Lehrbuch der orthopädischen Chirurgie. 1894
- Hoffa A. Atlas und Grundriss der Verbandlehre für Studierende und Aerzte.1897
- Hoffa A. Die Endresultate meiner letzten blutigen Operation der angeborenen Hüftgelenksluxation. Deutsche medizinische Wochenschrift 1897; XX: 305, 326
- Hoffa A. Die moderne Behandlung der angeborenen Hüftgelenksverrenkungen. Archiv für klinische chirurgie. Berlin 1899; LIX: 525—542.
- Hoffa A. Influence of adipose tissue with regard to the pathology of the knee joint. JAMA. 1904;43:795–796. [Hoffa fat pad]
- Hoffa A, Rauenbusch L. Atlas der orthopädischen Chirurgie in Röntgenbildern. 1905
- Hoffa A, Blencke E. Die orthopädische literatur. 1905
- Hoffa A. Orthopädische Chirurgie. Band I, Band II. 1921
References
- Pagel J. Hoffa, Albert. Biographisches Lexikon hervorragender Ärzte des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts. 1901: 768
- Garrison FH. An introduction to the history of medicine, with medical chronology, suggestions for study and bibliographic data
- Thomann K. [A Modern Textbook Is 100 Years Old. Albert Hoffa and the “Textbook of Orthopedic Surgery”] Z Orthop Ihre Grenzgeb. 1992; 130 (4): 339-44
