SRM Prime Hospital performs rare endoscopic closure with bovine pericardial patch

SRM Prime Hospital has successfully treated a neovaginal fistula successful a 22-year-old who had precocious undergone male-to-female gender-affirming country elsewhere. The information progressive an abnormal transportation betwixt the rectum and the neovagina, starring to the transition of flatus and faecal matter. Doctors closed the fistula utilizing a bovine pericardial patch. The minimally invasive, endoscopic day-care process helped the diligent debar large open-abdominal surgery.

The process was done by Arulprakash S., objective pb and elder consultant, and Tarun J. George, elder advisor successful aesculapian gastroenterology and hepatology. They worked nether the guidance of C. Paul Dilip Kumar, manager of Medical Services astatine SRM Prime Hospital.

The diligent had a uncommon recto-neovaginal fistula, an antithetic opening betwixt the rectum and a surgically created neovagina, which tin hap aft gender-affirming surgery. A erstwhile endoscopic clip attraction helped lone for a abbreviated time. Usually, unfastened abdominal country would beryllium the lone solution, but the doctors chose a little invasive method utilizing an endoscope to adjacent the opening with a peculiar bovine pericardial patch. And the diligent was capable to spell location the aforesaid day, needing lone a week of rest, 5 days of antibiotics, and stool softeners for astir 3 months.