Haemobilia Secondary to Spontaneous Cystic Artery-Gallbladder Fistula: A Unique Gastrointestinal Anomaly

Spontaneous cystic artery-gallbladder fistula is an extremely rare condition described in the medical literature. We have found two articles in the literature describing fistula formation between the cystic artery and gall bladder. In this report, we present a unique case of a cystic artery-gall bla...

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Autores principales: Acharya, Sudeep, Mukherjee, Indraneil, Anwar, Shamsuddin, Lan, Gloria, Polavarapu, Abhishek
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7455374/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32874789
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9457
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author Acharya, Sudeep
Mukherjee, Indraneil
Anwar, Shamsuddin
Lan, Gloria
Polavarapu, Abhishek
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description Spontaneous cystic artery-gallbladder fistula is an extremely rare condition described in the medical literature. We have found two articles in the literature describing fistula formation between the cystic artery and gall bladder. In this report, we present a unique case of a cystic artery-gall bladder fistula that resulted in massive gastrointestinal bleeding through cystic artery erosion and was adequately managed with coil embolization.
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spelling pubmed-74553742020-08-31 Haemobilia Secondary to Spontaneous Cystic Artery-Gallbladder Fistula: A Unique Gastrointestinal Anomaly Acharya, Sudeep Mukherjee, Indraneil Anwar, Shamsuddin Lan, Gloria Polavarapu, Abhishek Cureus Internal Medicine Spontaneous cystic artery-gallbladder fistula is an extremely rare condition described in the medical literature. We have found two articles in the literature describing fistula formation between the cystic artery and gall bladder. In this report, we present a unique case of a cystic artery-gall bladder fistula that resulted in massive gastrointestinal bleeding through cystic artery erosion and was adequately managed with coil embolization. Cureus 2020-07-29 /pmc/articles/PMC7455374/ /pubmed/32874789 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9457 Text en Copyright © 2020, Acharya et al. http://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.
spellingShingle Internal Medicine
Acharya, Sudeep
Mukherjee, Indraneil
Anwar, Shamsuddin
Lan, Gloria
Polavarapu, Abhishek
Haemobilia Secondary to Spontaneous Cystic Artery-Gallbladder Fistula: A Unique Gastrointestinal Anomaly
title Haemobilia Secondary to Spontaneous Cystic Artery-Gallbladder Fistula: A Unique Gastrointestinal Anomaly
title_full Haemobilia Secondary to Spontaneous Cystic Artery-Gallbladder Fistula: A Unique Gastrointestinal Anomaly
title_fullStr Haemobilia Secondary to Spontaneous Cystic Artery-Gallbladder Fistula: A Unique Gastrointestinal Anomaly
title_full_unstemmed Haemobilia Secondary to Spontaneous Cystic Artery-Gallbladder Fistula: A Unique Gastrointestinal Anomaly
title_short Haemobilia Secondary to Spontaneous Cystic Artery-Gallbladder Fistula: A Unique Gastrointestinal Anomaly
title_sort haemobilia secondary to spontaneous cystic artery-gallbladder fistula: a unique gastrointestinal anomaly
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7455374/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32874789
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9457
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