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Fistula comes in different shapes and sizes. It affects a wide
variety of organs starting from the brain to the anus. Also the
complexity and the amount of severity varies from case to case.
Just simply by looking at the symptoms no body can tell for
certain whether the person is suffering from fistula.
Symptoms vary from place to place depending on the place of
attack. This is why you need to undergo a lab test in order to
diagnose correctly whether you are actually suffering from
fistula or not.
Different Diagnosis Methods Include
1.Radiation Test: In this
type of lab test the patient needs to swallow a radio opaque
dye. Then a x-ray of the person concerned is taken. This x-ray
will properly show whether you are having a fistula growth or
not. If the fistula involves the colon, a contrast enema,
where the contrast dye is given via the rectum, may be useful.
2. Ct scan also come in
handy in the determination of an abscess or other forms of
pockets of infection
3. Fistulogram: Its a
program in which radio-opaque dye is injected into the opening
of the skin of an enterocutaneous fistula and X-rays taken, is
often performed as well.
however there are certain kind of fistula for which the above
doesn't help. When there is a fistula generation between the
arteries and the veins then the following process needs to be
undertaken
Radiograph of the chest
CT scan to confirm the presence of the abnormal blood vessels.
Pulmonary arteriogram (motion picture x-rays taken after the
injection of dye) which is used to make a "road map" of the
abnormal blood vessels before surgery or other treatments. |
