Faecal Incontinence by Author: Nicholas Rieger MB MS FRACS Grad Cert App Science (Statistics)

142 Ward Street, North Adelaide SA 5006, Australia. Published in Australian Doctor.

Transperineal Repair of Obstetric Related Anovaginal Fistula by Simon Sun Beng Chew MB BS, FRACS and Nick Anthony Rieger MB BS, FRACS. Published in Australian Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.

An excellent source of information on your bowel and all its functions is Bowel Control - Information and Practical Advice, Christine Norton & Michael A Kamm, St Mark's Hospital, London, publisher Beaconsfield Publishers Ltd, 20 Chiltern Hills Road, Beaconsfield, Bucks HP9 1PL, England.

If you would like to gain further understanding of the impacts of living with a fistula, Susan Johnson, an Australian author who suffered this injury, has written of her experience. Her book, entitled A Better Woman, is a personal account of the impact of a recto-vaginal fistula. You may wish to visit Susan's web site www.abetterwoman.net (click on non fiction).

The Hospital by the River by Dr Catherine Hamlin and John Little, offers the reader an insight into the outstanding work of Doctors Catherine and Reg Hamlin in the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital. Their pioneering treatment of the women of Ethiopia, who frequently suffer fistulae as a result of obstructed labour, has saved over 20,000 lives.