How to Use fistula in a Sentence

fistula

noun
  • At her pre-surgical consult for the fistula this past March, her surgeons were shocked.
    Usha Lee McFarling, STAT, 28 Sep. 2023
  • After 10 days, the fistula failed, and the couple spent the next two months training to do PD.
    Hannah Kirby, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 31 Dec. 2019
  • This is known as a fistula, according to the Mayo Clinic.
    Korin Miller, SELF, 13 June 2018
  • The patient recovered and lived for years, but the fistula never closed.
    Joanna Petrone, Longreads, 18 Aug. 2017
  • The next few weeks were a whirlwind of ups and downs as doctors ultimately planned surgery to repair the fistula.
    Julianne Pepitone, NBC News, 8 May 2021
  • For the tricky cases, the esophagus detours into the trachea, and that's known as a tracheal fistula.
    Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 6 July 2021
  • In June, a fistula was created in his arm to create space for the dialysis needles, Karen said.
    Hannah Kirby, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 Sep. 2019
  • In June, a fistula was created in his arm to create space for the dialysis needles.
    Hannah Kirby, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 31 Dec. 2019
  • The complications included a fistula that at one point caused the contents of her intestines to leak.
    Danny Robbins, ajc, 13 Dec. 2019
  • Doctors also joined an artery and a vein in his arm creating a fistula that helped draw blood more easily.
    Alice Li, Washington Post, 14 June 2023
  • Turner’s lab collected bacteria-laden discharge from a fistula that formed in the doctor’s chest and mixed it with phage.
    Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 20 Mar. 2018
  • At the end of November, doctors were finally able to repair the fistula fully in a surgery that went better than expected.
    Julianne Pepitone, NBC News, 8 May 2021
  • Fluid that accumulated in Thomas' mouth drained through a small fistula Densmore created at the side of Thomas' neck.
    Crocker Stephenson, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2017
  • Caleb was born with esophageal atresia and tracheoesophageal fistula, several long words that mean the pipes Caleb needs to breathe don’t fit together properly.
    Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2022
  • Use of a central venous catheter for hemodialysis conferred a six-times-higher risk for S. aureus bloodstream infection compared to use of a port in the arm known as a fistula, the researchers found.
    Fox News, 7 Feb. 2023
  • Female patients are more likely to have a fistula between the colon and the gynecologic organs.
    Andrea K. McDaniels, baltimoresun.com, 7 June 2018
  • Food was leaking through the fistula into the larger stomach, then passing through her entire small intestine.
    Douglas G Adler, Discover Magazine, 26 Apr. 2018
  • In these experiments on human chattel, Sims developed a technique to repair fistula, the first of its kind.
    Daniela Blei, The Atlantic, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Catherine, 11, Rosinne and Cecile’s cousin, drifted in and out of consciousness after coming out of surgery to repair a fistula caused by a bullet that had passed through her buttocks and genitals.
    New York Times, 4 Feb. 2022
  • The court of the Sun King already followed his lead on certain fashions — things like wigs and breeches — but the most bizarre act of imitation involved a medical ailment called a fistula that afflicted the monarch.
    John Kelly, Washington Post, 12 Feb. 2020
  • Sims is credited with advances in the surgical repair of fistulas or tears that can occur in women who have had pelvic surgery or complications from childbirth.
    Melanie Eversley, USA TODAY, 21 Aug. 2017
  • Surgeries included many performed in the body’s orifices to treat polyps, inflamed tonsils, hemorrhoids and fistulas.
    Franz Lidz, New York Times, 13 June 2023
  • The man with factor IX levels of 280% was one of two participants to get the highest dosage and had a serious adverse event of arteriovenous fistula thrombosis, a type of blood clotting.
    Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 22 July 2022
  • Sims also set out to cure vesicovaginal fistulas (VVF), an incurable condition at the time.
    Mari A. Schaefer, Philly.com, 30 Aug. 2017
  • An estimated 2 million women and girls in Africa live with obstetric fistula.
    Fox News, 2 July 2018
  • For instance, Cassia fistula or the Indian laburnum, a native tree that paints many cities yellow at the onset of summer, is pollinated by several species of carpenter bees.
    Kartik Chandramouli, Quartz India, 2 Mar. 2020
  • Montgomery for incurable cases of vesico-vaginal fistula (an abnormal tract between the bladder and vagina).
    Stephen Kenny, Smithsonian, 23 Aug. 2017
  • Without the fistula, dialysis must be administered via a catheter in a large central vein in the neck, which is associated with higher rates of complications, including infections, and should only be used temporarily.
    Fox News, 7 Feb. 2023
  • Do No Harm opens a few months before Sims finally found a cure for vesicovaginal fistula after performing 30 operations on Anarcha.
    Manuel Mendoza, Dallas News, 13 Mar. 2020
  • Dental fractures, cavity-like lesions in cats, root retention, oral inflammation in inaccessible areas, dental abscesses, oronasal fistulas and oral cancers are just a few of these.
    Patty Khuly, miamiherald, 3 June 2017

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