Health Affairs: Saving a patient from a rare coli fistula.
A medical team from Al-Jouf University’s College of Medicine and Prince Miteb Bin Abdulaziz Hospital in Sakaka managed to end the suffering of a 30-year-old from one of the rare cases of cystic fistula, which he had had for five years, where he had undergone careful surgery that lasted about 3 hours.
The operation was performed by doctors at the Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, in conjunction with the Department of Urology and Surgery at Prince Miteb bin Abdulaziz Hospital, and it ended in success, praise be to God.
Dr. Muhammad Jaid Al-Anazi, head of the department of surgery, and a consultant of kidney, urinary and analogues surgery at the College of Medicine, said that the patient suffered from frequent urinary infections over five years and he complained of passing feces with urine through the urethra and its mixing.
Dr. Al-Anazi added: "The case was diagnosed with an abnormal connection between the sigmoid colon and the rectum with the bladder (fistula), and this complication is one of the rare symptoms of diverticulitis, and affects 10: 10% of patients with diverticulitis." Stressing that the sigmoid colon was separated from the bladder where the adhesions were severe, then the fistula was removed and the area between them was covered with peritoneum.
This operation is part of a series of surgical operations that took place within the framework of activating the Memorandum of Understanding between Al-Jouf University and health affairs in the region, in repeated successes with distinguished national medical personnel.
