Chandigarh Surgeon creates history and does India proud

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Dr Pankaj Garg, a Senior Consultant in Department of Surgery, Fortis Super Specialty Hospital, Mohali, Chandigarh has done proud to Chandigarh by performing a new method of treating ####### Fistula for the first time in South Asia. This method known as ####### Fistula Plug(AFP) procedure has revolutionized the treatment of ####### Fistula. The ####### Fistula Plug has already been approved for clinical use by the highest standard enforcing authority of America, i.e., US FDA.

####### Fistula is a perplexing disease affecting lakhs of people all over the world. It has afflicted mankind for centuries but till date there had been no satisfactory treatment available.

Conventionally Surgery – Fistulutomy / Fistulectomy has been the mainstay of treatment. In this surgery, the fistula tract is laid open by cutting out the whole tract with knife. This leads to a large wound from the ####### opening to the buttock . Understandably this leaves the patient with lot of pain in the post operative period. The patient needs hospitalization for 4 to 8 days and requires dressings for this wound for 4 to 6 weeks .The patient obviously is off the work for few weeks. In spite of all these difficulties, this surgery is associated with a high recurrence rate. Other known methods such as seton treatment and fibrin glue method have also been not widely accepted due to high recurrence rates.

In high fistula (the fistulae going above the Rectal sling), the treatment is even more complex. It requires 3 operations in a staged manner. In the first stage, the ####### opening is made in the abdomen wall called Diverting Colostomy (the fecal matter comes through an artificial intestinal opening created on abdomen wall with a pouch fitted over it). In the second operation, the fistula is operated upon by cutting it out in the same manner as described above. In the third operation, the Colostomy is closed. The whole procedure takes about few months time. In spite of all this, this operation had high recurrence rates and had the inherent risk of the most dreaded complication- Bowel Incontinence (loss of control over bowel movements). So treating high fistula has been a nightmare for both surgeons and the suffering patients alike.

Now this new method, known as ####### Fistula Plug (AFP) has dramatically changed the way we can treat this complex disease. This treatment requires placement and fixing of the plug in ####### fistula by a special technique. The plug is made of highly sophisticated absorbable material which provides the scaffold over which body’s collagen gets deposited and closes the fistula.

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Edited October 16, 2006 by wife_of_mahmoud

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Dr Pankaj Garg, a Senior Consultant in Department of Surgery, Fortis Super Specialty Hospital, Mohali, Chandigarh has done proud to Chandigarh by performing a new method of treating ####### Fistula for the first time in South Asia. This method known as ####### Fistula Plug(AFP) procedure has revolutionized the treatment of ####### Fistula. The ####### Fistula Plug has already been approved for clinical use by the highest standard enforcing authority of America, i.e., US FDA.

####### Fistula is a perplexing disease affecting lakhs of people all over the world. It has afflicted mankind for centuries but till date there had been no satisfactory treatment available.

Conventionally Surgery – Fistulutomy / Fistulectomy has been the mainstay of treatment. In this surgery, the fistula tract is laid open by cutting out the whole tract with knife. This leads to a large wound from the ####### opening to the buttock . Understandably this leaves the patient with lot of pain in the post operative period. The patient needs hospitalization for 4 to 8 days and requires dressings for this wound for 4 to 6 weeks .The patient obviously is off the work for few weeks. In spite of all these difficulties, this surgery is associated with a high recurrence rate. Other known methods such as seton treatment and fibrin glue method have also been not widely accepted due to high recurrence rates.

In high fistula (the fistulae going above the Rectal sling), the treatment is even more complex. It requires 3 operations in a staged manner. In the first stage, the ####### opening is made in the abdomen wall called Diverting Colostomy (the fecal matter comes through an artificial intestinal opening created on abdomen wall with a pouch fitted over it). In the second operation, the fistula is operated upon by cutting it out in the same manner as described above. In the third operation, the Colostomy is closed. The whole procedure takes about few months time. In spite of all this, this operation had high recurrence rates and had the inherent risk of the most dreaded complication- Bowel Incontinence (loss of control over bowel movements). So treating high fistula has been a nightmare for both surgeons and the suffering patients alike.

Now this new method, known as ####### Fistula Plug (AFP) has dramatically changed the way we can treat this complex disease. This treatment requires placement and fixing of the plug in ####### fistula by a special technique. The plug is made of highly sophisticated absorbable material which provides the scaffold over which body’s collagen gets deposited and closes the fistula.

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I think this syndrome comes from playing with loggerhead turtles......................in the mud...........in the hills

[almaty 19]

Dr Pankaj Garg, a Senior Consultant in Department of Surgery, Fortis Super Specialty Hospital, Mohali, Chandigarh has done proud to Chandigarh by performing a new method of treating ####### Fistula for the first time in South Asia. This method known as ####### Fistula Plug(AFP) procedure has revolutionized the treatment of ####### Fistula. The ####### Fistula Plug has already been approved for clinical use by the highest standard enforcing authority of America, i.e., US FDA.

####### Fistula is a perplexing disease affecting lakhs of people all over the world. It has afflicted mankind for centuries but till date there had been no satisfactory treatment available.

Conventionally Surgery – Fistulutomy / Fistulectomy has been the mainstay of treatment. In this surgery, the fistula tract is laid open by cutting out the whole tract with knife. This leads to a large wound from the ####### opening to the buttock . Understandably this leaves the patient with lot of pain in the post operative period. The patient needs hospitalization for 4 to 8 days and requires dressings for this wound for 4 to 6 weeks .The patient obviously is off the work for few weeks. In spite of all these difficulties, this surgery is associated with a high recurrence rate. Other known methods such as seton treatment and fibrin glue method have also been not widely accepted due to high recurrence rates.

In high fistula (the fistulae going above the Rectal sling), the treatment is even more complex. It requires 3 operations in a staged manner. In the first stage, the ####### opening is made in the abdomen wall called Diverting Colostomy (the fecal matter comes through an artificial intestinal opening created on abdomen wall with a pouch fitted over it). In the second operation, the fistula is operated upon by cutting it out in the same manner as described above. In the third operation, the Colostomy is closed. The whole procedure takes about few months time. In spite of all this, this operation had high recurrence rates and had the inherent risk of the most dreaded complication- Bowel Incontinence (loss of control over bowel movements). So treating high fistula has been a nightmare for both surgeons and the suffering patients alike.

Now this new method, known as ####### Fistula Plug (AFP) has dramatically changed the way we can treat this complex disease. This treatment requires placement and fixing of the plug in ####### fistula by a special technique. The plug is made of highly sophisticated absorbable material which provides the scaffold over which body’s collagen gets deposited and closes the fistula.

want the rest of the story..gupt.com

I think this syndrome comes from playing with loggerhead turtles......................in the mud...........in the hills

you are indeed a right thinking type of man who knows the facts...