Repeated dialysis needling can cause painful aneurysmal fistulas that must be removed. A new, minimally invasive approach will decrease morbidity amonghemodialysis patients and help improve their ...

One big challenge of being a foreign correspondent is to make the foreign less foreign, especially on issues that might seem esoteric or irrelevant to an American audience. The challenge was all the ...

A vesicovaginal fistula is an irregular opening between your bladder and vagina. This causes urine to leak out of your vagina. Usually, urine should only exit your body through your urethra (tube at ...

Esophageal fistula (EF) is a rare but serious complication of catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation (AF), with high mortality. Partly because of its rarity, numbers on its incidence, management, ...

The treatment of fistulas requires surgery to correct the abnormal connection or passageway that has formed between two organs or vessels. One common complication of fistulas is infection, which needs ...

The endoscopic device manufactured by Maquet was originally developed for harvesting of the saphenous vein and radial artery as conduits for coronary artery bypass graft surgery. These vessels are ...