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Recommended Books on Fistula

A Social Worker's Investigation of Childbirth Injured Women in Northern Nigeria A Social Worker's Investigation of Childbirth Injured Women in Northern Nigeria investigates Vesicovaginal fistula (VVF), a childbirth injury commonly found among younger adolescent wives in northern Nigeria. Examining the problem from a social worker's perspective, this timely work focuses on VVF as it relates to the social and ecological environment of the affected women. This comprehensive study defines and describes VVF as it manifests itself in Africa, explores the history and epidemiology of the condition and its treatment, and describes the affected women and how their position in society predisposed them to childbirth injury.

First Steps in Vesico-vaginal Fistula Repair Nobody knows how many fistula patients there are who have been forgotten and are without hope. Estimates are up to 2.000.000 in Africa alone. However, recent survey of fistula repair throughout Uganda revealed that only 270 repairs were carried out in 2002. The reasons for this range from perceptions of the operation as being difficult, to the lack of training, special instruments and tools required for performing this operation. Written by an expert in the obstetric damage repair field, Brian Hancock has encouraged many surgeons and gynaecologists to develop and share expertise in the fistula field, and has even founded a charity to pay for free treatment for injuries incurred during childbirth at three hospitals in Uganda. His expertise comes to a head in this book where he shows that fears and concerns surrounding vesico vaginal repair are often unfounded, as many fistulae can be cured locally, without sophisticated equipment or specialist surgeons. The purpose of this publication is to help the beginner to get started by recognizing the easy cases and to show step by step how they should be repaired. Postoperative care is described and shown to be very simple. This book will be of use to all of those dealing with obstetric fistulae, whether in developing or developed countries, as doctors and physicians in both may be as equally unfamiliar as each other with the different appearances and techniques of repair

Benign Anorectal Diseases: Diagnosis with Endoanal and Endorectal Ultrasound and New Treatment Options

New three-dimensional endoanal and endorectal ultrasonographic and magnetic resonance imaging techniques have given better insight into the complex anatomy of the pelvic floor and its pathologic modification in benign anorectal diseases. Obstetrical events leading to fecal incontinence in females, the relationship between fistulous tracks and the sphincter complex, and mechanisms of obstructed defecation syndrome can now be accurately evaluated, which is of fundamental importance for decision making. Thanks to improvements in the diagnosis of these disorders, new forms of treatment have been developed with better outcome for patients.

This book is aimed at general and colorectal surgeons, radiologists, gastroenterologists and gynecologists with a special interest in this field. It is also relevant to everyone who wants to improve their understanding of the fundamental principles of pelvic floor disorders.

Hippocrates: Volume VIII, Places in Man. Glands. Fleshes. Prorrhetic 1-2. Physician. Use of Liquids. Ulcers. Haemorrhoids and Fistulas (Loeb Classical Library No. 482)

The medical treatises collected under Hippocrates' name are essential sources of information about the practice of medicine in antiquity and about Greek theories concerning the human body. In this eighth volume of the ongoing Loeb edition of these invaluable texts, Paul Potter presents ten treatises that offer an illuminating overview of Hippocratic medicine.

Three theoretical works—Places in Man, General Nature of Glands, and Fleshes—expound particular theories of anatomy and physiology and then elaborate on how disease and healing occur in the systems depicted. Prorrhetic 1 and 2 and Physician deal with symptoms and prognosis and with other aspects of the physician-patient relationship. And four practical manuals—Use of Liquids, Ulcers, Fistulas, and Haemorrhoids—give specific instruction for treatments. Thus from the writings in this volume we gain insight into the Hippocratic physician's understanding of the body, his approach to his patient, and his methods for dealing with a variety of disorders.

The other works available in the Loeb Classical Library edition of Hippocrates are the following. Volume I: Ancient Medicine. Airs, Waters, Places. Epidemics 1 and 3. The Oath. Precepts. Nutriment. Volume II: Prognostic. Regimen in Acute Diseases. The Sacred Disease. The Art. Breaths. Law. Decorum. Physician (Ch. 1). Dentition. Volume III: On Wounds in the Head. In the Surgery. On Fractures. On Joints. Mochlicon. Volume IV: Nature of Man. Regimen in Health. Humours. Aphorisms. Regimen 1-3. Dreams. Volume V: Affections. Diseases 1-2. Volume VI: Diseases 3. Internal Affections. Regimen in Acute Diseases. Volume VII: Epidemics 2 and 4-7. Volume IV also contains the fragments of Heracleitus, On the Universe.

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