Not only does their baby most likely die, the fistula will cause incontinence problems with continuous dribbling urine or foul smelling gas and stool. This medical problem cannot be solved without a ...

October 16, 2008 (San Francisco, California) — A novel sphincter-sparing surgical technique for the repair of perianal fistulas has demonstrated a 58% success rate in an American patient population.

Each afternoon—after neighbors in her village compound in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, in Nigeria’s coastal region, had gone out for the day—Imaobong Dickson would sneak out of her home to wash pieces of ...

An arteriovenous fistula (AVF) is an abnormal joining of an artery and a vein. If an AVF is affecting health, early treatment can help prevent complications. An AVF occurs if an artery connects to a ...

A human rights lawyer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, and two world-class surgeons are rallying evangelicals to defeat fistula. A fistula develops when bladder or rectal tissue is damaged during ...

The endoscopic device manufactured by Maquet was originally developed for harvesting of the saphenous vein and radial artery as conduits for coronary artery bypass graft surgery. These vessels are ...

This condition leads to the leakage of urine and/or faeces, resulting in immense physical and emotional distress. Addressing the whole woman, not just the physical condition Mette Kjaer Kinoti of ...