The growing proportion of individuals suffering from chronic kidney disease has considerable repercussions for both kidney specialists and primary care. Progressive and permanent renal failure is most frequently treated with hemodialysis. The efficiency of hemodialysis treatment relies on the functional status of vascular access. Determining the type of vascular access has prime significance fo...

BACKGROUND Obstetric fistulae with Urinary incontinence are one of the most distressing maternal morbidities. It is associated with physical and social deprivation such as wife abandonment and violent reactions against the victims particularly in the developing countries of the world. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To study the demographic and reproductive profiles as well as management of patients with...

Introduction This study evaluated the effect of fibrin glue applied as a sandwich film between a two layer pancreatico-jejunostomy anastomosis following pancreaticoduodenectomy. Primary end-points were post-operative pancreatic fistulae, overall complication rates and post-operative length of stay. Methods Pancreaticoduodenectomy was performed by fashioning a two layer pancreatico-jejunostomy w...

Anastomotic leaks and fistulae are among the major life-threatening post-esophagectomy complications, with incidence rates ranging from 3% to 10%, increasing post-surgical mortality to about 20% [1]. The successful closure of post-surgical fistulae may be achieved by the use of fully covered, self-expandable, metal esophageal stents (SEMSs) [2]. When SEMSs are selected for treatment, stents nee...

were registered citizens of Stockholm County at the time of definite diagnosis. These patients were followed up and investigated with reference to the occurrence of and outcome after treatment for anal fistulae. These fistulae were recorded in 184 patients (23 %/.). The incidence of anal fistulae increased the further distally the intestinal lesion was located. Healing followed local operation ...

BACKGROUND The endovascular salvage of occluded autogenous radial-cephalic fistulae is a more challenging procedure than that for stenotic fistulae. To obtain an access to the fistula is one of the keys to success. Both retrograde venous approach and brachial artery approach have some disadvantages. The radial artery approach has been used in the endovascular therapy of fistula dysfunction, but...

Coronary cameral fistulae are unusual congenital or acquired anomalous communications between an epicardial coronary artery and a cardiac chamber. There are no reported cases of the association of coronary cameral fistulae and cor triatriatum, a rare congenital cardiac anomaly in which a fibromuscular membrane divides the left atrium into two chambers. We report the case of an 82-year-old man p...

INTRODUCTION Patients with cervical carcinoma that invade the bladder or rectum (International Federation of Obstetrics and Gynecology stage IVA) have a high risk to develop vesicovaginal and/or rectovaginal fistulae. If we could identify pretreatment factors that predict fistula formation, these patients could be offered less debilitating treatment. MATERIALS AND METHODS Data were retrieved ...

PANCREATIC fistula is not an uncommon condition. It usually presents externally at the site of surgical wounds following operations on the stomach, biliary tract, pancreas, left kidney and spleen. It also results from marsupialisation of false pancreatic cysts, and drainage of pancreatic abscesses. It may follow exploratory operations for trauma or inflammation of the pancreas. Desmond (1962) h...

A 62-year-old man who died suddenly was found at autopsy to have multiple coronary arteriosystemic fistulae involving all three major coronary arteries and both ventricles. This is the second such case reported and the first with biventricular involvement and autopsy findings. A congenital bicuspid valve was also present. Numerous small blood vessels opened onto the endocardial surface of both ...