FISTULAS

Vaginal Fistula Treatment in Jumeirah, Dubai

vaginal fistula is an abnormal opening that connects your vagina to another organ. For example, a vaginal fistula can link your vagina to your: Bladder Ureters, the tubes that carry your pee from your kidneys to your bladder Urethra, the tube that carries your pee down from your bladder and outside your body Rectum. There can also cause complications, like: Vaginal or urinary tract infections that keep coming back.
Hygiene problems such as stool or gas that leaks through the vagina.
Irritated or inflamed skin around your vagina or anus An abscess — a swollen clump of infected tissue with pus that could be life-threatening if it’s not treated.

Types of Vaginal Fistula

Based on which organ the vaginal fistula links to, it is categories into the following types:

Enterovaginal fistula: vagina opens to the small intestine.

Colovaginal fistula: the opening is between the colon and the vagina

Rectovaginal fistula: the opening between the rectum and the vagina

Urethrovaginal fistula: the opening between the urethra and vagina

Uretovaginal fistula: the opening between ureter and the vagina

Vesicovaginal fistula: the opening between the bladder and the vagina

Signs and Symptoms

A person suffering from vaginal fistula shows the following signs and symptoms:

  • Passing stool, urine and pus through the vagina due to communication of different body fluids
  • A vaginal discharge which is foul smelling
  • An irritating sensation in the vagina
  • Pain when having sex

If you observe any of the above signs and symptoms, seek an immediate treatment for vaginal fistula at our clinic in Dubai.

Using modern techniques, our specialist doctors at SHAMMA Clinic, Jumeirah can provide you with the latest & effective vaginal fistula treatment in Dubai. Get in touch with our experts today!

Causes of vaginal fistula

  • Surgery: Some surgeries affect the integrity of organs thus creating a fistula. An example during surgery a surgeon may accidentally puncture the bladder and vagina thus creating access between the both organs.
  • Injury: Childbirth can create a fistula. Prolonged labor creates pressure between the rectum and vagina which creates way into the other organ thus creating a fistula.
  • Radiation treatment: pelvic malignancy is treated with radiation. One of the complications of the treatment include rectovaginal fistula.
  • Infection: After an episiotomy repair, infections can cause a fistula.
  • Radiation treatment: radiation treatment increases the chances of rectovaginal fistula.
  • Bowel disease such as crohns disease and diverticulitis.

What You Can Do

  • Take care of an episiotomy after stitching to ensure infections do not result
  • Seeking help as soon as one notices all is not well

What We Can Do

The vaginal fistula treatment at our clinic in Dubai includes:

  • With a team of gynecologists, we offer the best reproductive care
  • Ensuring surgeries are done properly thus minimizing the chances of fistula
  • Dye test in the bladder to see if any of the content leaks to the vagina
  • Cystoscopy to see whether the bladder and ureter has openings
  • Retrograde pyelogram to visualize the bladder
  • A CT urogram to visualize the bladder and the vagina
  • Conservative therapy is sought when the fistula is small. Conservative therapy allows the fistula to heal appropriately.
  • Surgery to reconstruct the fistula.

Book an appointment with our expert gynecologist by taking a moment to fill in the form given below. Our doctor will assess your condition with utmost detail and recommend the best vaginal fistula treatment option available.

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