How to Use fistula in a Sentence

fistula

noun
  • The patient recovered and lived for years, but the fistula never closed.
    — Joanna Petrone, Longreads, 18 Aug. 2017
  • At her pre-surgical consult for the fistula this past March, her surgeons were shocked.
    — Usha Lee McFarling, STAT, 28 Sep. 2023
  • 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
  • Eloise was born with esophageal atresia/tracheoesophageal fistula.
    — Will Croxton, CBS News, 22 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • The complications included a fistula that at one point caused the contents of her intestines to leak.
    — Danny Robbins, ajc, 13 Dec. 2019
  • But a nasal fistula—a hole between his nose and mouth—made his speech garbled and unintelligible.
    — Dave Eshleman, The Mercury News, 7 Jan. 2024
  • In June, a fistula was created in his arm to create space for the dialysis needles.
    — Hannah Kirby, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 31 Dec. 2019
  • 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
  • For the tricky cases, the esophagus detours into the trachea, and that's known as a tracheal fistula.
    — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 6 July 2021
  • 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 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
  • Female patients are more likely to have a fistula between the colon and the gynecologic organs.
    — Andrea K. McDaniels, baltimoresun.com, 7 June 2018
  • Some 6 percent of these deaths are from obstetric fistulas, and for each of those deaths, as many as four to five more women will live with an obstetric fistula injury.
    — Ashley Judd, Scientific American, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Patients on kidney dialysis need a durable connection between an artery and a vein, called a fistula, so they can be linked to a dialysis machine for treatment.
    — Shimite Obialo, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Having a baby without medical help may be natural, but so is obstetric fistula and hemorrhaging to death.
    — Michelle Goldberg, The Mercury News, 6 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • The leather charm, modeled after the blossoms of the Cassia fistula tree, can hold small items like earbuds, or perhaps an herbal inhaler, which are popular in the Asian nation.
    — Miles Socha, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • No patient showed urethral fistula, voiding deterioration, penile nodule/curve or pain.
    — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 12 Feb. 2016
  • Sims also set out to cure vesicovaginal fistulas (VVF), an incurable condition at the time.
    — Mari A. Schaefer, Philly.com, 30 Aug. 2017
  • Although rare, surgery may cause anastomotic leakage, pelvic abscesses, and rectovaginal fistula.
    — Kasandra Brabaw, Health, 19 June 2024
  • Meredith, however, has a CSF-venous fistula where, instead of leaking out, the fluid is pulled directly into a vein and carried into the bloodstream.
    — Tereza Shkurtaj, PEOPLE, 17 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • By knocking back the immune system with immunosuppressants and nutrition from TPN—to rest the bowel by not eating or drinking—fistulas can sometimes close themselves.
    — Andrew Chapman, Longreads, 18 Apr. 2024

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