How to Use fistula in a Sentence

fistula

noun

• 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
• 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
• 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
• This is known as a fistula, according to the Mayo Clinic.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 13 June 2018
• The patient recovered and lived for years, but the fistula never closed.
  — Joanna Petrone, Longreads, 18 Aug. 2017
• 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
• At her pre-surgical consult for the fistula this past March, her surgeons were shocked.
  — Usha Lee McFarling, STAT, 28 Sep. 2023
• For the tricky cases, the esophagus detours into the trachea, and that's known as a tracheal fistula.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 6 July 2021
• 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
• In June, a fistula was created in his arm to create space for the dialysis needles.
  — Hannah Kirby, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 31 Dec. 2019
• The complications included a fistula that at one point caused the contents of her intestines to leak.
  — Danny Robbins, ajc, 13 Dec. 2019
• 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
• Turner’s lab collected bacteria-laden discharge from a fistula that formed in the doctor’s chest and mixed it with phage.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 20 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
• 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
• 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
• Use of a central venous catheter for hemodialysis conferred a six-times-higher risk for S. aureus bloodstream infection compared to use of a port in the arm known as a fistula, the researchers found.
  — Fox News, 7 Feb. 2023
• Female patients are more likely to have a fistula between the colon and the gynecologic organs.
  — Andrea K. McDaniels, baltimoresun.com, 7 June 2018
• 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 these experiments on human chattel, Sims developed a technique to repair fistula, the first of its kind.
  — Daniela Blei, The Atlantic, 8 Mar. 2018
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Surgeries included many performed in the body’s orifices to treat polyps, inflamed tonsils, hemorrhoids and fistulas.
  — Franz Lidz, New York Times, 13 June 2023
• The man with factor IX levels of 280% was one of two participants to get the highest dosage and had a serious adverse event of arteriovenous fistula thrombosis, a type of blood clotting.
  — Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 22 July 2022
• Sims also set out to cure vesicovaginal fistulas (VVF), an incurable condition at the time.
  — Mari A. Schaefer, Philly.com, 30 Aug. 2017
• An estimated 2 million women and girls in Africa live with obstetric fistula.
  — Fox News, 2 July 2018
• 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
• Montgomery for incurable cases of vesico-vaginal fistula (an abnormal tract between the bladder and vagina).
  — Stephen Kenny, Smithsonian, 23 Aug. 2017
• Without the fistula, dialysis must be administered via a catheter in a large central vein in the neck, which is associated with higher rates of complications, including infections, and should only be used temporarily.
  — Fox News, 7 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024