Vacuum-assisted closure (VAC) therapy is a widely acknowledged method for chronic and traumatic wound healing. The feasibility of VAC therapy used for the treatment of intestinal fistulas is still 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.

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The appraisal committee considered evidence submitted by Takeda and a review of this submission by the evidence review group (ERG). See the committee papers for full details of the evidence. Perianal ...

Tubularized incised plate (TIP) urethroplasty is an increasingly popular means of hypospadias repair. It is usually effective, but in as many as 17% of cases urethrocutaneous fistulas develop after ...

Anal fistulas affect about 2 in 10,000 people yearly, with a higher prevalence in young men. Most fistulas form due to blocked anal glands, resulting in infection and abscess formation. Fistulas are ...

A fistula is an abnormal, tube-like connection that forms between two organs or vessels that are lined with epithelial cells. Fistulas are generally the result of a disease condition, but artificial ...

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Kavita (name changed on request), a 30-year-old dentist from Mumbai, had been living in near-constant pain for many years because of an embarrassing medical condition — rectovaginal fistula. Multiple ...

Justin Field, MD, assistant clinical professor in the division of gastroenterology at the University of California, San Francisco, discusses the baseline characteristics in the case: "Our patient is a ...

Factors involved in fistulizing perianal disease pathogenesis include a genetically determined altered immune response with increased production of cytokines, leading to upregulation of matrix ...

The appraisal committee considered evidence submitted by Takeda and a review of this submission by the evidence review group (ERG). See the committee papers for full details of the evidence. Perianal ...