Fistulae

Indeed, it is a sad comment about the world in which we live that most women in the so called 'Third World do not have access to even the most rudimentary gynaecological or obstetric healthcare and that vaginal fistulae are so common. ❋ Aka TBTAM (2009)

It would be years, and many more operations on these same women and others, before he perfected a surgical technique using silver wire suture that resolved the fistulae completely. ❋ Aka TBTAM (2009)

They told me about the resulting loss of their reproductive organs and the fistulae they got - the hole between their vagina and anus or vagina and bladder that no longer allowed them to hold their urine or faeces. ❋ Unknown (2010)

These rapes are brutal, leaving the victims with deep wounds and fistulae that require surgery. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Yet her doctors are flying by the seats of their pants because the only existing guidance is for dealing with fistulae in natal females. ❋ Unknown (2010)

While it is difficult to measure pregnancy-related injuries and disabilities, estimates of maternal morbidity vary from 16 to 50 million annually and include such profoundly disabling conditions as vesico-vaginal fistulae, a condition many consider a fate akin to living death. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Dr. Syed has now devoted his career to helping underserved women, such as Ashrafi Akbar, who came to see the doctor to repair her fistula click here for more info about fistulae. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Eundemque noctibus micare crebris ignibus, Ægipanum Satyrorumque lascivia impleri, tibiarum ac fistulae cantu tympanorumque et cymbalorum sonitu strepere. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The prevention and treatment of obstetric fistulae: Report of a technical working group, April 1989. ❋ Unknown (1996)

She should be taken to a clinic immediately if she has any of the following signs: eclampsia, shown by fits or convulsions infection, shown by high fever and pain in the abdomen; other signs include headaches, vaginal discharge with a bad smell, and vomiting or diarrhoea haemorrhage (heavy bleeding) fistulae, shown by urine or faeces leaking from the vagina ❋ Unknown (1995)

Other complications that can develop after delivery are anaemia and fistulae. ❋ Unknown (1995)

These holes between the vagina and the bladder or the rectum are called fistulae. ❋ Unknown (1995)

The efficacy of the operation in lowering intra-ocular tension is to some extent measured by the degree and the constancy of this epibulbar oedema; indeed, I suspect that the most successful examples are those in which sclera fistulae, minute or otherwise, form as a sequel of the operation. ❋ Various (N/A)

In all likelihood many cases of relief or cure following iridectomy are those due to the formation of cystoid scars or minute fistulae, rather than as a result of the removal of a portion of the iris periphery. ❋ Various (N/A)

Due regard is given the manner of establishing drainage because of the usual existence of sub-fascial fistulae. ❋ John Victor Lacroix (N/A)

Where extensive sub-coronary fistulae result, either from lack of prompt or proper attention, the condition is then one requiring a radical operation to establish drainage and to disinfect if possible, the suppurating tissues. ❋ John Victor Lacroix (N/A)

In the latter state, catheterism is useless, and the only means whereby the urethra may be rendered pervious in the proper direction is that of incising the stricture from the perinaeum, and after passing a catheter across the divided part into the bladder, to retain the instrument in this situation till the wound and the fistulae heal and close under the treatment proper for this end. ❋ Joseph Maclise (N/A)

-- These terms are applied to swellings, blood tumors, abscesses and pus fistulae that may be present in the region of the poll and withers (Fig. 60). ❋ R. A. Craig (N/A)