Austin Moore
Austin Talley Moore (1899–1963) was an American orthopedic surgeon.
Austin Moore was a pioneer in the use of the femoral-head prosthesis and Vitallium
On September 28, 1940 Austin Moore and Harold Ray Bohlman (1893–1979) published an early report on metallic hip replacement in a patient. They introduced the process of fixing the femoral head to a stem that would fit the proximal femur medullary canal.
Biography
- Born on June 21, 1899 Ridgeway, South Carolina
- 1924 – Graduated, Medical College of South Carolin; then internship at Columbia Hospital
- 1925-1927 University of Pennsylvania with Professor A. Bruce Gill
- 1927 – Orthopedic surgeon, Columbia Hospital
- 1928 – Founded the Moore Orthopedic Clinic
- Died 1963
Medical Eponyms
Austin Moore Hip Prosthesis (1942)
Associated persons
- Marius Nygaard Smith-Petersen (1886-1953) [Smith-Petersen mould arthroplasty, 1923]
- Austin Talley Moore (1899–1963) [Austin Moore hip prosthesis, 1942]
- Frederick Roeck Thompson (1907–1983) [Thompson Vitallium Hip Prosthesis, 1950]
- John Charnley (1911-1982) [Moore hip prosthesis, 1950]
Major Publications
- Moore AT, Bohlman HR. Metal hip joint. A case report. J Bone Joint Surg 1943; 25: 688
- Moore AT. Progress in orthopedic surgery–metal joints. South Med Surg. 1951 Oct;113(10):326-7.
- Moore AT. Metal hip joint; a new self-locking vitallium prosthesis. South Med J. 1952 Nov;45(11):1015-19
- Moore AT. The self-locking metal hip prosthesis. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 1957 Jul;39-A(4):811-27.
References
Biography
- Mostofi SB. Who’s Who in Orthopedics. Springer; 2005: 238
- Chillag KJ. Giants of Orthopaedic Surgery: Austin T. Moore MD. Clin Orthop Relat Res. 2016 Dec; 474(12): 2606–2610.
Eponymous terms
- Stinchfield FE, Cooperman B. Replacement of the femoral head by Judet or Austin Moore prosthesis. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 1957 Oct;39-A(5):1043-58
- Hernigou P, Quiennec S, Guissou I. Hip hemiarthroplasty: from Venable and Bohlman to Moore and Thompson. Int Orthop. 2014 Mar; 38(3): 655–661.
- Parcells B. History of THA. Hip & Knee Book. 2017
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Eponym
the person behind the name
Dr Conor O'Reilly, MB BCh BAO BComm, University College Dublin / Dublin City University, Ireland. In Australia working in Emergency Medicine with an interest in Sports medicine
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Dr. Moore was a cousin of mine. The family called him Tal. I was so young when he and Dr. Lunceford operated on me (I was 14) that I called him Dr. Moore.
I remember several things about him, like he apologized for not being a plastic surgeon. And that the nurses were scared of him, in case they should make a mistake. He was inolerant. And how he gave a nurse hell when he realized the “candy” he’d bit down on was actually a little ball of soap. And how he tweaked my big toe which made me hurt like hell. I loved Dr. Moore and Dr. Lunceford.
Is there a group of people online who were operated on by him?