Nikolai Lopatkin (1924-2013) was an outstanding Russian scientist, the originator of Russian urology, a graduate of the 2nd Moscow Medical Institute, the founder and the Head of the Research Institute of Urology, an Academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, a Hero of Socialist Labor. He headed the Urology Department of the 2nd Order of Lenin Moscow Medical Institute in 1968-1991, was a Doctor of Medical Sciences (1959), a Professor (1964), an Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation (1998).
In 1947, he graduated from the 2nd Moscow Medical Institute. In 1953, he defended a thesis for a Candidate of Medical Sciences themed Penicillin Penetration through Pleural Laminae, and in 1959, a thesis for a Doctor of Medical Sciences entitled Renal Angiography. Since 1962, Nikolai Lopatkin was a professor, and since 1968, the Head of the Department of Urology and Operative Nephrology of the 2nd Moscow Medical Institute.
N. Lopatkin introduced into clinical practice a number of the latest methods of diagnostics and treatment in the field of urology and nephrology. In 1958, in cooperation with A. Pytel, he was the first in the USSR to use a renal dialyzer; besides, he initiated the creation of chronic hemodialysis departments in the USSR. Since 1966, he headed the research into problems of surgical treatment of patients with the terminal chronic renal failure, as well as deceased-donor kidney transplantation. He was the first in the USSR to develop and introduce into clinical practice extracorporeal kidney operations and an original autotransplantation technique.
On Lopatkin's initiative, the Research Institute of Urology of the Ministry of Health of the RSFSR (presently the Russian Federation) was established in Moscow, which he headed over the period of 1979-2007.
The postage stamp features a portrait of N. Lopatkin against the background of some of his scientific works.
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