An AV fistula may fail for various reasons, including low or poor blood flow, failure to mature, excessive pain, a sclerotic vein, and a thrombotic vein. Failure can be disheartening to a patient who ...

A retrospective single-center study found that the York-Mason procedure achieved an overall 72 percent success rate for ...

(PHILADELPHIA) After surgery to remove the head of the pancreas, invagination of the pancreas into the small intestine resulted in a lower rate of pancreatic fistula, according to researchers at the ...

A staged surgical strategy combining emergency stent-graft repair, early esophagectomy and delayed reconstruction saved a ...

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, ...

Pune: Specialists at the Army Institute of Cardio-Thoracic Sciences (AICTS) have successfully treated an 56-year-old woman from Latur, the wife of a military veteran, who was suffering from advanced ...

Mokolo, Cameroon—For five years, 29-year-old Denise lived with an obstetric fistula, a childbirth-related complication that profoundly affected her life. After undergoing surgery at the Mokolo ...

Hemorrhoid Report ④] ended with, "Well then, I'm off to the chopping block." This time, I will write about what happened from ...

My 60 years old mother was put on dialysis using a mature AV fistula on her left arm for a few months. Now she has to have a mastectomy for breast cancer, which is also on her left side. The doctors ...

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 ...