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An investigation of the relationship between autonomy, childbirth practices, and obstetric fistula among women in rural Lilongwe District, Malawi

BMC International Health and Human Rights, 2017
Background Obstetric fistula is a childbirth injury caused by prolonged obstructed labor that results in destruction of the tissue wall between the vagina and bladder.
Julika Ayla Kaplan, Jonathan Kandodo, Joseph Sclafani, Susan Raine, Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby, Alison Norris, Abigail Norris-Turner, Elly Chemey, John Michael Beckham, Zara Khan, Reginald Chunda   +10 more
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Eliminating Obstetric Fistula in Muslim Communities

, 2015
There have been assertions that early marriage is the major factor responsible for obstetric fistula in developing countries and some Muslim majority areas.
Garba Habib, Aisha
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A Novel PPP1R12A Splice‐Site Variant Identified in a Female Fetus With Perineal Hamartoma

Prenatal Diagnosis, EarlyView.
Shiyu Chen, Xi Tan
wiley   +1 more source

Pharmacokinetics, safety, tolerability and fluorescence imaging of nizaracianine triflutate administered in three divided doses to healthy volunteers

British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, Volume 92, Issue 7, Page 2085-2094, July 2026.
Aim Fluorescence‐guided surgery enhances intraoperative visualization of anatomical structures. Nizaracianine is a near‐infrared fluorescent agent that is exclusively renally cleared in animal models. It enables real‐time ureteral imaging and identification, potentially reduces risk of injury and facilitates assessment before surgical closure.
Lisanne K. A. Neijenhuis, Cedric M. W. Pesch, John V. Frangioni, Alexander L. Vahrmeijer, Jacobus Burggraaf, Naomi B. Klarenbeek   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Experience of Women with Obstetric Fistula following Corrective Surgery: A Qualitative Study in Benadir and Mudug Regions, Somalia

Obstetrics and Gynecology International, 2018
Obstetric fistula is a severe maternal morbidity which can have devastating consequences for a woman’s life and is generally associated with poor obstetric services leading to prolonged obstructed labour.
Adam A. Mohamed, Abiodun O. Ilesanmi, M. David Dairo   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Need for a global obstetric fistula training strategy.

, 2012
Obstetric fistula is a complication of childbirth that often follows obstructed labor and is almost exclusive to low-resource countries. The original Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD 1990 Study) reported an incidence of 8.68 per 100000 and a ...
Khaddaj, Sinan, Scott, Rachel, Knight, Louise, Rushwan, Hamid, Louise Knight, Sinan Khaddaj, Hamid Rushwan, Rachel Scott   +7 more
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Reversal of evolving third‐degree atrioventricular block in utero by early detection and combination therapy

Ultrasound in Obstetrics &Gynecology, EarlyView.
S. Lertvutivivat, L Gotha, K. Papneja, N. Dutil, L. Stennett, L. T. Hiraki, L. Freud   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Safety of Treating Women With Inflammatory Bowel Disease With Allopurinol and Low‐Dose Thiopurine During Pregnancy: A Single‐Center Experience

JCC Plus, Volume 1, Issue 4, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Background Low‐dose thiopurine therapy in combination with allopurinol (LD‐THIO/ALLO) is a widely used treatment for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). However, little is known about the effects of in utero exposure to this combination on pregnancy and birth outcomes.
Kavitha Sivananthan, Signe Wildt, Marianne Kiszka‐Kanowitz, Gitte Pedersen, Ida Vind, Inge Nordgaard‐Lassen, Andreas Munk Petersen, Johan Burisch, Helle Kristensen, Klaus Theede   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Outreach programmes for obstetric fistulae

Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 2004
The communique´ following the international workshop on vesico-vaginal fistula (VVF) Nigeria 1998 stated that ‘VVF afflicts two million women in Africa and Asia with Nigeria accounting for 200 000 and that it would take between 30 and 40 years to clear the existing backlog without attending to new cases’. Regrettably there are many such patients in the
openaire   +2 more sources

Obstetric Fistula in Mali

, 2008
Obstetric fistula is arguably the most devastating result of childbirth complications, aside from maternal and neonatal mortality, the latter of which almost always occurs during deliveries which result in fistula.
O’Connell, Chandler
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