“In thousands of fistula repair procedures around the world, the Biodesign Fistula Plug has achieved significant success rates in treating the most painful and complex fistulas,” said Andy ...

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 ...

Women with fistula: ... infection and resulting stigma that a $300 surgery could fix. By Kate Harding. Published November 2, 2009 3:03PM ... and fistula repair is easily accessed when necessary.

Repair procedures based on the use of bioprosthetic plugs were developed to assist fistula healing and improve continence by preventing surgical trauma to the sphincter muscle.

In the DRC, I witnessed a fistula repair surgery, the mother gripping my right hand, my left wiping her brow, as doctors sewed her perforated vagina. Some years later a woman named Marima invited ...

A doctor may then close the fistula, repair or remove the damaged blood vessel, or create a bypass. Endovascular surgery has fewer risks and less pain postsurgery and may result in quicker ...

Sumaya and Vida make their way to the fistula surgery, ... The World Health Organization confirms that surgical repair of an obstetric fistula has a 90% success rate in simple cases, ...

Blog - Jackline Chiwinga remembered the euphoria of waking up to dry bedding after her successful obstetric fistula repair surgery. Seventeen years old and married, for one year, she lived with ...