fistulae

It would be years, and many more operations on these same women and others, before he perfected a surgical technique using silver wire suture that resolved the fistulae completely.

The Invention of the Sims Speculum - Surgical Improvisation aka TBTAM 2009

Indeed, it is a sad comment about the world in which we live that most women in the so called 'Third World do not have access to even the most rudimentary gynaecological or obstetric healthcare and that vaginal fistulae are so common.

The Invention of the Sims Speculum - Surgical Improvisation aka TBTAM 2009

They told me about the resulting loss of their reproductive organs and the fistulae they got - the hole between their vagina and anus or vagina and bladder that no longer allowed them to hold their urine or faeces.

Eve Ensler: Congo Cancer: My Cancer is Arbitrary Congo's Atrocities Are Very Deliberate 2010

These rapes are brutal, leaving the victims with deep wounds and fistulae that require surgery.

Amy Goodman: Eve Ensler: Bald, Brave and Beautiful 2010

These rapes are brutal, leaving the victims with deep wounds and fistulae that require surgery.

Amy Goodman: Eve Ensler: Bald, Brave and Beautiful 2010

They told me about the resulting loss of their reproductive organs and the fistulae they got - the hole between their vagina and anus or vagina and bladder that no longer allowed them to hold their urine or faeces.

Eve Ensler: Congo Cancer: My Cancer is Arbitrary. Congo's Atrocities are Very Deliberate. 2010

Yet her doctors are flying by the seats of their pants because the only existing guidance is for dealing with fistulae in natal females.

Joanne Herman: The Sorry State of Transgender Health Care 2010

While it is difficult to measure pregnancy-related injuries and disabilities, estimates of maternal morbidity vary from 16 to 50 million annually and include such profoundly disabling conditions as vesico-vaginal fistulae, a condition many consider a fate akin to living death.

Jodi Jacobson: Human Rights Council Declares Maternal Death, Illness a Rights Violation 2009

Dr. Syed has now devoted his career to helping underserved women, such as Ashrafi Akbar, who came to see the doctor to repair her fistula click here for more info about fistulae.

Global Feminist Profile: Dr. Shershah Syed « Gender Across Borders 2009

Eundemque noctibus micare crebris ignibus, Ægipanum Satyrorumque lascivia impleri, tibiarum ac fistulae cantu tympanorumque et cymbalorum sonitu strepere.

The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie 2004