BLOOMINGTON, Ind.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Hospitals nationwide will receive six percent higher reimbursement payments for outpatient repair of anal fistulas using Cook Medical's Biodesign® Fistula Plug, a ...

LIMERICK, Ireland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Interventional Procedures Advisory Committee in the UK has recommended bioprosthetic fistula plugs as a ...

Background: Low transsphincteric fistulas less than 1/3 of the sphincter complex are easy to treat by fistulotomy with a high success rate. High transsphincteric fistulas remain a surgical challenge.

October 16, 2008 (San Francisco, California) — A novel sphincter-sparing surgical technique for the repair of perianal fistulas has demonstrated a 58% success rate in an American patient population.

Surgical repair of complex anal fistulas has to achieve a balance between optimal primary healing and best preservation of continence. As traditional surgical techniques confer a risk of continence ...

This procedure works well for blocking an anal fistula and there are no serious concerns about its safety. An anal fistula is a narrow tunnel that forms between the end of the bowel and the skin near ...

This section describes safety outcomes from the published literature that the Committee considered as part of the evidence about this procedure. For more detailed information on the evidence, see the ...