OBJECTIVE To examine the incidence and type of obstetric fistula presenting to Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia over a 4-year period. STUDY DESIGN This is a 4-year retrospective survey of obstetric fistula treated at three Hamlin Fistula Hospitals in Ethiopia, where approximately half of all women in the country are treated. The operation logbook was reviewed to identify all new cases of obstetric fis...

Department of Nephrology, Monash Medical Centre, Department of Medicine, Monash University, Department of Radiology, Austin Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Department of Renal Medicine, Fremantle Hospital, Fremantle, Western Australia, Department of Nephrology, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia, Department of Renal Medicine, The Canberra Hospital, Canberra, Australian Capital Terr...

BACKGROUND Fistulizing Crohn's disease (CD) presents a therapeutic challenge as fistulae are notoriously difficult to heal. Mycobacterium avium ss paratuberculosis (MAP) treatment in CD is gaining attention. AIM We evaluated healing of CD fistula(e) using a novel combination therapy. STUDY Nine consecutive patients who failed to heal fistulae on conventional treatment including anti-TNF, we...

The authors present the case of three patients from the same family in whom hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) or Rendu-Osler-Weber syndrome was diagnosed. The disease is rare and occurs with multiple telangiectases of the skin and mucosa, and pulmonary arteriovenous fistulae. The clinical status of our patients included multiple telangiectases of the skin and mucosa, recurrent epistax...

Received 2/2/2007; revised 4/2/2007; accepted 4/3/2007. For correspondence or reprints contact: Chiung-Zuan Chiu, M.D., Division of Cardiology, Shin-Kong Wu Ho-Su Memorial Hospital. 95 Wen Chan Road, Shih Lin, Taipei 111, Taiwan. Tel: (886)2-28332211 ext. 9456, Fax: (886)2-28123397, E-mail: [email protected] Background: Coronary fistula is a congenital anomaly resulting in steal phenomenon o...

Aortoenteric fistulae are life-threatening conditions characterized by abnormal communications between the aorta and gastrointestinal tract. Aortoenteric fistulae may be characterized by the triad of bleeding, abdominal pain, or a pulsatile abdominal mass. Although hemorrhage is the most common presentation, it does not always occur; thus, patients may present with nonspecific symptoms. Compute...

UNLABELLED Anal fistula is a benign inflammatory disease with unclear etiology which develops in approximately 10 in 100 000 adult patients. Surgical treatment of fistulae is associated with a risk of damaging anal sphincters. This usually happens in treating high fistulae, branched fistulae, and anterior ones in females. In preoperative diagnosis of anal fistulae, endosonography and magnetic r...

Interventional neuroradiology continues to play an increasing role in the treatment of intracranial aneurysms, the treatment of vasospasm related to subarachnoid hemorrhage, and the treatment of vascular malformations and fistulae of the brain and spine. New techniques for aneurysm embolization are examined, such as detachable coil systems, as are reports of intracranial angioplasty and superse...

We describe herein intraoperative effectiveness of indocyanine green (ICG) video angiography to confirm dural arteriovenous fistulae. A 62-year-old man with a residual symptomatic dural arteriovenous fistula that was previously embolized at another institution is presented. On neurological examination, the motor strength in his both lower extremities was documented as grade 4 and the patella re...