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Obstetric fistula is a hole between the vagina and rectum or bladder that is caused by prolonged obstructed labor, leaving a woman incontinent; unable to control the flow of her urine or her feces.
The obstetrician and gynecologist became involved with helping women suffering from fistula 17 years ago after visiting his aunt Valerie Browning in rural Ethiopia, who assisted women with terrible childbirth injuries.
The report estimates the number of women living with fistula in sub-Saharan Africa at two million. But Dr. France Donnay of the U.N. Population Fund says the figure is probably a "gross underestimation."
According to the report, women living with fistula are usually under 20, illiterate and poor.
Obstetric fistula is a pregnancy-related disability caused by prolonged, obstructed labor.
Fistula is both preventable and treatable and is virtually unheard of in the developed world.
In the 19th century, there was a hospital in New York City devoted exclusively to fistula treatment. It closed 100 years ago when cases of fistula petered out.
communicating fistula
blind fistula
Small fistulæ are to be closed bilaterally in an antero-posterior line[…]
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There are several reasons why a manual on this disease should be a part of the veterinary literature of the day, the chief one being that fistula of the withers is a very prevalent disease of horses and thus exacts a big toll from the horse industry.
Fistulas are abnormal communications between two epithelialized surfaces. The causes of enterocutaneous fistulas can be remembered using the mnemonic FRIEND: Foreign body, Radiation, Inflammation/Infection/Inflammatory bowel disease, Epithelialization, Neoplasm, and Distal obstruction. Fifteen to twenty-five percent of enterocutaneous fistulas arise spontaneously as in, for example, Crohn’s disease or cancer.
An intestinal fistula is an unwanted pathway from intestines to other organs (e.g., the bladder).
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