Life-Threatening Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding Secondary to Aortoenteric Fistula

Tasbirul Islam; George Hines; Douglas S. Katz; William Purtil; Francis Castiller

doi:10.4137/CCRPM.S376

Clinical Medicine Insights: Circulatory, Respiratory and Pulmonary Medicine (Jan 2008)

Life-Threatening Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding Secondary to Aortoenteric Fistula

Tasbirul Islam,
George Hines,
Douglas S. Katz,
William Purtil,
Francis Castiller

Affiliations

Tasbirul Islam: Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Winthrop-University Hospital, Mineola, NY, U.S.A.
George Hines: Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Winthrop-University Hospital, Mineola, NY, U.S.A.
Douglas S. Katz: Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Winthrop-University Hospital, Mineola, NY, U.S.A.
William Purtil: Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Winthrop-University Hospital, Mineola, NY, U.S.A.
Francis Castiller: Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Winthrop-University Hospital, Mineola, NY, U.S.A.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4137/CCRPM.S376
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 2

Abstract

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We present a patient with gastrointestinal bleeding secondary to an aortoduodenal fistula. The patient had undergone an open surgical repair of an abdominal aortic aneurysm five years prior to admission.

Published in Clinical Medicine Insights: Circulatory, Respiratory and Pulmonary Medicine

ISSN: 1179-5484 (Online)
Publisher: SAGE Publishing
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Specialties of internal medicine: Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system; Medicine: Internal medicine: Specialties of internal medicine: Diseases of the respiratory system
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