Moreover, innovative techniques such as chyme reinfusion have been explored to reduce postoperative complications following definitive surgery for small intestinal fistulas. This method has shown ...

The patient continued to do poorly after operation, with breakdown of the anastomosis, formation of a small-bowel fistula and multiple abscesses. Three subsequent operations were necessary ...

A forty-eight-year-old carpenter was transferred from another hospital because of an abdominal-incision dehiscence and draining small-bowel fistula. The patient had been well and working up until ...

A fistula is a small tunnel that makes an abnormal connection ... Some doctors recommend taking a sitz bath after each bowel movement or at least two to three times a day when you have an anal ...

Fistulas of any kind occur at a rate of about ... and an association between small bowel resection and higher diversion rates (pooled P=0.003). Timothy Ritter, MD, of the GI Alliance Research ...

Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD ... which affects the colon and ileum (the last part of the small intestine). Crohn’s Disease is associated with ulcers and fistulae. A fistula is an abnormal ...