Re: Entero-vaginal fistula
From: FRANCES WREN (fwren@shaw.ca)
Thu Mar 6 10:09:18 2008
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I have seen a couple of patients over my career with croh'n disese producing what looked like enerovag fistulas..
one was operated on twice by a colleague as a bartholins..which by the third time I was lucky enough to see and realize it was a fistula...and not a bartholins ( though probably I would too have missed it at first)
also if it is small and recent sometimes a long period of oral flgayl will cure it...at least it did in the second one .ie cure the fistula which was tiny...not the crohn's
frances wren
>----- Original Message -----
From: dr99645@yahoo.com (D. Glen Elrod, MD)
Date: Wednesday, March 5, 2008 3:28 pm
Subject: Re: Entero-vaginal fistula
To: Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L <ob-gyn-l@mail.obgyn.net>
> Rafael,
>
> Have you seen this patient yet? I have this exact patient coming
> to see
> me tomorrow. I'm curious if anything that was listed
> actually worked on
> this patient.
>
> Mine has known diverticular disease as her risk factor for her
> fistula.
> Glen
>
> At Wed, 20 Feb 2008, Raymond Stephen wrote:
> >
> >First question should be, what in the history could have caused a
> >fistula? They don't arise spontaneously. Then look
> for the hole. If
> >you don't see it, the "gas" is probably entrapped air. If
> you still
> >think there is a hole even though you haven't seen it, then an
> EUA with
> >a finger stretching the rectovaginal septum from the rectal side.
> >Usually the fistulous tract is scarred and contracted and that
> deformity>can be felt even if not seen.
> >
> >Steve
> >
> >________________________________
> >
> >________________________________
> >From: ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net [mailto:ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net] On Behalf
> Of Rafael
> >
> >--
> >________________________________
> >Haciski
> >________________________________
> >Sent: Wednesday, 20 February 2008 3:28 AM
> >To: Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L
> >Subject: Entero-vaginal fistula
> >
> >I am having a pt referred to me for evaluation of "passing gas per
> >vagina"
> >
> >Not having seen a fistula since residency days, I am looking
> for advice
> >on which diagnostic modalities may be best suited to confirming
> such a
> >fistula (beyond the physical exam at which time one may see the
> actual>fistula, stool etc)., to delineate it's source, course etc.
> >
> >Rafael Haciski MD FACOG
> >
> >Anchor Health Centers GYN
> >
> >800 Goodlette Rd #360
> >
> >239-643-8780 office
> >
> >239-571-0292 cell
> >
> >Naples, FL.
> >
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<DIV>I have seen a couple of patients over my career with croh'n disese producing what looked like enerovag fistulas..</DIV>
<DIV>one was operated on twice by a colleague as a bartholins..which by the third time I was lucky enough to see and realize it was a fistula...and not a bartholins ( though probably I would too have missed it at first)</DIV>
<DIV>also if it is small and recent sometimes a long period of oral flgayl will cure it...at least it did in the second one .ie cure the fistula which was tiny...not the crohn's</DIV>
><DIV>frances wren<BR><BR>----- Original Message -----<BR>From: dr99645@yahoo.com (D. Glen Elrod, MD)<BR>Date: Wednesday, March 5, 2008 3:28 pm<BR>Subject: Re: Entero-vaginal fistula<BR>To: Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L <ob-gyn-l@mail.obgyn.net><BR><BR>> Rafael,<BR>> <BR>> Have you seen this patient yet? I have this exact patient coming <BR>> to see<BR>> me tomorrow. I'm curious if anything that was listed <BR>> actually worked on<BR>> this patient.<BR>> <BR>> Mine has known diverticular disease as her risk factor for her <BR>> fistula.<BR>> Glen<BR>> <BR>> At Wed, 20 Feb 2008, Raymond Stephen wrote:<BR>> ><BR>> >First question should be, what in the history could have caused a<BR>> >fistula? They don't arise spontaneously. Then look <BR>> for the hole. If<BR>> >you don't see it, the "gas" is probably entrapped air. If <BR>> you still<BR>> >think there is a hole even though you haven't seen it, then an <BR>> EUA with<BR>> >a finger stretching the rectovaginal septum from the rectal side.<BR>> &
gt;Usually the fistulous tract is scarred and contracted and that <BR>> deformity>can be felt even if not seen.<BR>> ><BR>> >Steve<BR>> ><BR>> >________________________________<BR>> ><BR>> >From: ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net [mailto:ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net] On Behalf <BR>> Of Rafael<BR>> ><BR>> >--<BR>> >________________________________<BR>> >Haciski<BR>> >Sent: Wednesday, 20 February 2008 3:28 AM<BR>> >To: Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L<BR>> >Subject: Entero-vaginal fistula<BR>> ><BR>> >I am having a pt referred to me for evaluation of "passing gas per<BR>> >vagina"<BR>> ><BR>> >Not having seen a fistula since residency days, I am looking <BR>> for advice<BR>> >on which diagnostic modalities may be best suited to confirming <BR>> such a<BR>> >fistula (beyond the
physical exam at which time one may see the <BR>> actual>fistula, stool etc)., to delineate it's source, course etc.<BR>> ><BR>> >Rafael Haciski MD FACOG<BR>> ><BR>> >Anchor Health Centers GYN<BR>> ><BR>> >800 Goodlette Rd #360<BR>> ><BR>> >239-643-8780 office<BR>> ><BR>> >239-571-0292 cell<BR>> ><BR>> >Naples, FL.<BR>> ><BR>> >CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE AND DISCLAIMER<BR>> ><BR>> >The information in this transmission may be confidential and/or <BR>> protected by legal professional privilege, and is intended only <BR>> for the person or persons to whom it is addressed. If you are <BR>> not such a person, you are warned that any disclosure, copying <BR>> or dissemination of the information is unauthorised. If you have <BR>> received the transmission in error, please immediately contact <BR>> this office by telephone, fax or email, to inform us of the <BR>> error and to enable arrangements to be made for the destruction <BR>> of the transmission, or its return at our cost. No liability is <BR>> accepted for any unauthorised use of the information contained &
#060;BR>> in this transmission. If the transmission contains advice, the <BR>> advice is based on instructions in relation to, and is provided <BR>> to the addressee in connection with, the matter mentioned above. <BR>> Responsibility is not accepted for reliance upon it by any other <BR>> person or for any other purpose.<BR>> ><BR>> <BR>> </DIV>
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