Primary Aortoenteric Fistula in a Patient With Prior Abdominopelvic Surgery and Opioid-Induced Constipation

Aortoenteric fistulas (AEF) represent a rare, life-threatening cause of gastrointestinal bleeding with an incidence of 0.007 per million. Iliac artery-enteric fistulas represent an even more uncommon variant of AEFs. Prompt diagnosis and intervention are required to prevent associated morbidity and...

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Autores principales: Patel, Akash, Ajumobi, Adewale, Chang, Jerry
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10013726/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36925987
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.34895
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description Aortoenteric fistulas (AEF) represent a rare, life-threatening cause of gastrointestinal bleeding with an incidence of 0.007 per million. Iliac artery-enteric fistulas represent an even more uncommon variant of AEFs. Prompt diagnosis and intervention are required to prevent associated morbidity and mortality. Herein, we report a rare case of iliac-enteric fistula in a patient with hematochezia.
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spelling pubmed-100137262023-03-15 Primary Aortoenteric Fistula in a Patient With Prior Abdominopelvic Surgery and Opioid-Induced Constipation Patel, Akash Ajumobi, Adewale Chang, Jerry Cureus Internal Medicine Aortoenteric fistulas (AEF) represent a rare, life-threatening cause of gastrointestinal bleeding with an incidence of 0.007 per million. Iliac artery-enteric fistulas represent an even more uncommon variant of AEFs. Prompt diagnosis and intervention are required to prevent associated morbidity and mortality. Herein, we report a rare case of iliac-enteric fistula in a patient with hematochezia. Cureus 2023-02-12 /pmc/articles/PMC10013726/ /pubmed/36925987 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.34895 Text en Copyright © 2023, Patel et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Primary Aortoenteric Fistula in a Patient With Prior Abdominopelvic Surgery and Opioid-Induced Constipation
title Primary Aortoenteric Fistula in a Patient With Prior Abdominopelvic Surgery and Opioid-Induced Constipation
title_full Primary Aortoenteric Fistula in a Patient With Prior Abdominopelvic Surgery and Opioid-Induced Constipation
title_fullStr Primary Aortoenteric Fistula in a Patient With Prior Abdominopelvic Surgery and Opioid-Induced Constipation
title_full_unstemmed Primary Aortoenteric Fistula in a Patient With Prior Abdominopelvic Surgery and Opioid-Induced Constipation
title_short Primary Aortoenteric Fistula in a Patient With Prior Abdominopelvic Surgery and Opioid-Induced Constipation
title_sort primary aortoenteric fistula in a patient with prior abdominopelvic surgery and opioid-induced constipation
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10013726/
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