fistulas

Note the causal arrow might go both ways, with fistulas causing inflammation www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17109067 as well as inflammation causing fistulas.

Courtiers started faking anal fistulas after the king had an operation to remove his.

And then you add this to the universal surgical risk of abdominal fistulas.

Central lines, dialysis fistulas, chemotherapy ports are all notorious for getting infection.

No fistulas, thankfully, but the whole thing is a Damocles sword, nevertheless.

After the successful operation, fistulas became fashionable to the point that some courtiers who didn't actually have an anal fistula demanded the same surgery.

Does your program also include include care for women with fistulas?

Am I correct to assume your program seeks to prevent fistulas from occurring?

In UC/Crohn's, patients presented with recurrent bouts of bloody diarrhea in the absence of infectious symptoms, with possible associations of malabsorption, fistulas, and colon cancer.

You can't tell these people to hold out until the researchers figure out how to cure the underlying condition, because that means consigning them to a life of painful intestinal scarring, blockages, fistulas, and ultimately surgery up to and including bowel resection.

As someone who used to do dialysis-access operations (AV fistulas/AV shunts), just looking at their diagram and seeing 3 location with a plastic::tissue interface (artery, vein, bladder) is a massive hurdle alone.