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South- Way South- Of the Border; Beyond the Tropic of Cancer Lies Mexico's Land of the Endless Summer
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South of Mazatla'n, perhaps 40 or 50 minutes, everything starts
to change. The very air you breathe turns languid, heavy. Herons,
cranes and egrets appear in the ditches and fields alongside Mexican
Highway 15. The coastal desert is still there, with its anguished
rock and tormented brush, but toward the Pacific, beyond the
dessicated hills, a new landscape is emerging, of mangrove swamp,
winding estuaries, extravagant jungle. You have crossed the Tropic
of Cancer, that invisible boundary 23 1/2 degrees north of the
Equator that separates the lands of frost and fire, the temperate
zone from ...
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Fistulae are first at Kansas dialysis services.(Fistula First: Vascular Access Update)
Magazine article from: Nephrology Nursing Journal
; ...benefits are incredible! Fistulae Increased at KDS (Stan...of our patients had fistulas, 35% had grafts...of our patients had fistulas, 18% had grafts and...absolute increase in fistulae and was a very big achievement...are being used, our fistula percentage could reach...
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Fistulas, bladder and ureteral damage: postoperative incontinence? Check for injuries.(Gynecology)
Magazine article from: OB GYN News
; ...cystoscopy is the best way to diagnose a fistula. Associated pathology includes sphincteric abnormalities, secondary fistulas, urethral defects, and ureteral...As to the timing of surgery for a fistula, there is usually no need to wait...
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Management of gastrointestinal fistulas: a case study.(Focus On Wound Care)
Magazine article from: MedSurg Nursing
; ...with nonhealing fistulas are neoplasm at the fistula origin, radiation...epithelialization of the fistula tract (Minei...Champine, 2002). Fistulas may be classified...location of the fistula. Enteral nutrition...low-output fistulas and fistulas...
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'Fistula Fortnight' Opens in Nigeria: 46 Women Treated for Obstetric Fistula on 1st Day; Hundreds More to be Treated Over 2 Weeks
Newspaper article from: U.S. Newswire
; ...Feb. 23 /U.S. Newswire/ -- As "Fistula Fortnight", the largest surgical effort to treat women living with obstetric fistula over a two-week period, opened in Nigeria...partnering with a team of 24 Nigerian expert fistula surgeons and trainee doctors to treat...
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"Fistula Force"--a team approach to Fistula First.(Fistula First: Vascular Access Update)
Magazine article from: Nephrology Nursing Journal
; ...In association with Fistula First, we have committed...educating patients regarding fistulas and promoting AVFs as...access other than a fistula. Surgeon selection...success rate in creating fistulas as reflected by outcome...aggressive in addressing fistula concerns, such as failure...
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Fistula and its Treatment.
News Wire article from: UNB - United News of Bangladesh
; ...tests revealed that she was suffering from fistula, a worst form of pregnancy-related...Shahida was recently operated upon at the Fistula Centre of Dhaka Medical College Hospital...the disease. Like Shahida, 39 other fistula patients were operated upon at the temporary...
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Fistula Surgery Camp at LRH for poor patients.
News Wire article from: PPI - Pakistan Press International
; ...Forum on Women's Health has started Fistula surgery camp at Lady Reading Hospital (LRH) Peshawar to conduct surgeries of Fistula patients. Every year some 4 hundred thousands women suffer with Fistula and other maternity related complication...
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Enterocutaneous fistula in cancer patients: Etiology, management, outcome, and impact on further treatment
Magazine article from: The American Surgeon
; ...with enterocutaneous fistulae in adult patients with...cancer who developed a fistula from the gastrointestinal...with gastrointestinal fistulae were identified. The...and weight loss. The fistula was usually single...early management of fistulas once they develop may...
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The outcome of intestinal fistulae: The Louisiana State University Medical Center--Shreveport experience
Magazine article from: The American Surgeon
; ...patients with external fistulae, 16 patients were initially...the 13 patients whose fistula did not close underwent...3). The internal fistulae were entero-entero...enterovesicular (18). Fistulae were evaluated by physiologic type. A fistula was considered low output...
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The Anal Fistula Plug versus the mucosal advancement flap for the treatment of Anorectal Fistula (PLUG trial).(Study protocol)
Magazine article from: BMC Surgery
; ...closing anorectal fistulas, because the glue...extruded from the fistula tract by increased...with high perianal fistulas of cryptoglandular...randomized to either the fistula plug or the mucosal...with high perianal fistulas. Inclusion criteria...high anorectal fistula of ...
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