 Intestinal Fistula
"Intestinal Fistula" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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An abnormal anatomical passage between the INTESTINE, and another segment of the intestine or other organs. External intestinal fistula is connected to the SKIN (enterocutaneous fistula). Internal intestinal fistula can be connected to a number of organs, such as STOMACH (gastrocolic fistula), the BILIARY TRACT (cholecystoduodenal fistula), or the URINARY BLADDER of the URINARY TRACT (colovesical fistula). Risk factors include inflammatory processes, cancer, radiation treatment, and surgical misadventures (MEDICAL ERRORS).
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D007412
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C06.267.550 C06.405.469.471 C23.300.575.185.550
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| 1980 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 1983 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1984 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1988 | 3 | 0 | 3 | | 1991 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1993 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1998 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1999 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2002 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2003 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2008 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2010 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2011 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Intestinal Fistula" by people in Profiles.
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Feagan BG, Schwartz D, Danese S, Rubin DT, Lissoos TW, Xu J, Lasch K. Efficacy of Vedolizumab in Fistulising Crohn's Disease: Exploratory Analyses of Data from GEMINI 2. J Crohns Colitis. 2018 Apr 27; 12(5):621-626.
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Siegel CA, Whitman CB, Spiegel BMR, Feagan B, Sands B, Loftus EV, Panaccione R, D'Haens G, Bernstein CN, Gearry R, Ng SC, Mantzaris GJ, Sartor B, Silverberg MS, Riddell R, Koutroubakis IE, O'Morain C, Lakatos PL, McGovern DPB, Halfvarson J, Reinisch W, Rogler G, Kruis W, Tysk C, Schreiber S, Danese S, Sandborn W, Griffiths A, Moum B, Gasche C, Pallone F, Travis S, Panes J, Colombel JF, Hanauer S, Peyrin-Biroulet L. Development of an index to define overall disease severity in IBD. Gut. 2018 02; 67(2):244-254.
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Stack ME, Salgia N, Vigneswaran WT. Successful Primary Repair of a Colopericardial Fistula: A Late Complication of Esophageal Replacement. Ann Thorac Surg. 2015 Oct; 100(4):1459-61.
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Hirsch A, Yarur AJ, Dezheng H, Rodriquez D, Krugliak Cleveland N, Ali T, Hurst RD, Umanskiy K, Hyman N, Colwell J, Rubin DT. Penetrating Disease, Narcotic Use, and Loop Ostomy Are Associated with Ostomy and IBD-related Complications After Ostomy Surgery in Crohn's Disease Patients. J Gastrointest Surg. 2015 Oct; 19(10):1852-61.
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Schmid-Tannwald C, Agrawal G, Dahi F, Sethi I, Oto A. Diffusion-weighted MRI: role in detecting abdominopelvic internal fistulas and sinus tracts. J Magn Reson Imaging. 2012 Jan; 35(1):125-31.
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Gupta N, Bostrom AG, Kirschner BS, Ferry GD, Gold BD, Cohen SA, Winter HS, Baldassano RN, Abramson O, Smith T, Heyman MB. Incidence of stricturing and penetrating complications of Crohn's disease diagnosed in pediatric patients. Inflamm Bowel Dis. 2010 Apr; 16(4):638-44.
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Baharestani M, Amjad I, Bookout K, Fleck T, Gabriel A, Kaufman D, McCord SS, Moores DC, Olutoye OO, Salazar JD, Song DH, Teich S, Gupta S. V.A.C. Therapy in the management of paediatric wounds: clinical review and experience. Int Wound J. 2009 Aug; 6 Suppl 1:1-26.
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Cohen RD, Waters HC, Tang B, Rahman MI. Effects of fistula on healthcare costs and utilization for patients with Crohn's disease treated in a managed care environment. Inflamm Bowel Dis. 2008 Dec; 14(12):1707-14.
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Abbott DE, Halverson AL, Wayne JD, Kim JY, Talamonti MS, Dumanian GA. The oblique rectus abdominal myocutaneous flap for complex pelvic wound reconstruction. Dis Colon Rectum. 2008 Aug; 51(8):1237-41.
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Wood MJ, Hyman N, Hebert JC, Blaszyk H. Catastrophic Clostridium difficile enteritis in a pelvic pouch patient: report of a case. J Gastrointest Surg. 2008 Feb; 12(2):350-2.
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