Fistulas

Fistulas lead to incontinence of urine, feces and often cause infertility.

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Fistulas lead to incontinence of urine, feces and often cause infertility.

Christy Turlington: Back to Bangladesh - Day 3 Christy Turlington 2011

Fistulas were eliminated in wealthy countries more than a century ago thanks to birth control and advancements in child birth medicine, namely caeserian sections, but it persists in poor nations with weak and crumbling health systems.

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Fistulas are a kind of damage that is seldom seen in the developed world.

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Fistulas occur during prolonged obstructed labour, when the blood supply to parts of the vagina, bladder and on occasion the rectum, is cut off.

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Fistulas could be extremely uncomfortable, embarrassing, and even fatal.

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Fistulas may arise from wounds of glandular organs or their ducts, and thus we have the so-called mammary or lacrimal fistulas.

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Fistulas may exist in any part of the body, but the name has come to be commonly accepted as applicable only to such lesions when found upon the withers.

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_ -- Fistulas follow as a result of abscesses, bruises, wounds, or long-continued irritation by the harness.

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Fistulas have about one-sixth the risk of infection as a central line.

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