A Cause of Mortal Massive Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding: Aortoesophageal Fistula

INTRODUCTION: Aortoesophageal fistula is an uncommon but mortal cause of massive upper gastrointestinal bleeding. The most common causes are thoracic aortic aneurisym, foreign body reaction, malignancy and postoperative complication. It can be seen in different pattern on upper gastrointestinal endo...

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Autores principales: Akin, Mete, Yalcinkaya, Tolga, Alkan, Erhan, Arslan, Gokhan, Tuna, Yasar, Yildirim, Bulent
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: AVICENA, d.o.o., Sarajevo 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4779346/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26980940
http://dx.doi.org/10.5455/medarh.2016.70.79-81
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author Akin, Mete
Yalcinkaya, Tolga
Alkan, Erhan
Arslan, Gokhan
Tuna, Yasar
Yildirim, Bulent
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description INTRODUCTION: Aortoesophageal fistula is an uncommon but mortal cause of massive upper gastrointestinal bleeding. The most common causes are thoracic aortic aneurisym, foreign body reaction, malignancy and postoperative complication. It can be seen in different pattern on upper gastrointestinal endoscopy. There are surgical, endoscopic and interventional radiological treatment options, however, definitive treatment is surgical intervention. Diagnosis and treatment desicion should be made quickly because of rapid and mortal course. CASE REPORT: In this article, a case of aortoesophageal fistula was presented that resulted in mortality as a result of massive bleeding.
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spelling pubmed-47793462016-03-15 A Cause of Mortal Massive Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding: Aortoesophageal Fistula Akin, Mete Yalcinkaya, Tolga Alkan, Erhan Arslan, Gokhan Tuna, Yasar Yildirim, Bulent Med Arch Case Report INTRODUCTION: Aortoesophageal fistula is an uncommon but mortal cause of massive upper gastrointestinal bleeding. The most common causes are thoracic aortic aneurisym, foreign body reaction, malignancy and postoperative complication. It can be seen in different pattern on upper gastrointestinal endoscopy. There are surgical, endoscopic and interventional radiological treatment options, however, definitive treatment is surgical intervention. Diagnosis and treatment desicion should be made quickly because of rapid and mortal course. CASE REPORT: In this article, a case of aortoesophageal fistula was presented that resulted in mortality as a result of massive bleeding. AVICENA, d.o.o., Sarajevo 2016-02 2016-01-31 /pmc/articles/PMC4779346/ /pubmed/26980940 http://dx.doi.org/10.5455/medarh.2016.70.79-81 Text en Copyright: © Mete Akin, Tolga Yalcinkaya, Erhan Alkan, Gokhan Arslan, Yasar Tuna, Bulent Yildirim http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Arslan, Gokhan
Tuna, Yasar
Yildirim, Bulent
A Cause of Mortal Massive Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding: Aortoesophageal Fistula
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title_full A Cause of Mortal Massive Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding: Aortoesophageal Fistula
title_fullStr A Cause of Mortal Massive Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding: Aortoesophageal Fistula
title_full_unstemmed A Cause of Mortal Massive Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding: Aortoesophageal Fistula
title_short A Cause of Mortal Massive Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding: Aortoesophageal Fistula
title_sort cause of mortal massive upper gastrointestinal bleeding: aortoesophageal fistula
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4779346/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26980940
http://dx.doi.org/10.5455/medarh.2016.70.79-81
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