A Rare Cause of Gastrointestinal Bleeding: Aorto-Enteric Fistula

Aorto-enteric fistula is defined as an abnormal connection between the gastrointestinal system and the aorta. The patients who develop this condition usually have a grim prognosis and the cases are universally fatal unless intervened with an endovascular repair or open surgical repair. Given the rar...

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Autores principales: Gadela, Tejaswi, Paravathaneni, Mahati, Manney, Deekshitha, Bandla, Harikrishna
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9386321/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35989755
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.27023
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author Gadela, Tejaswi
Paravathaneni, Mahati
Manney, Deekshitha
Bandla, Harikrishna
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description Aorto-enteric fistula is defined as an abnormal connection between the gastrointestinal system and the aorta. The patients who develop this condition usually have a grim prognosis and the cases are universally fatal unless intervened with an endovascular repair or open surgical repair. Given the rarity and the relative unfamiliarity of this condition, an understanding of the presentation, pathogenesis, and management is vital to prevent catastrophic complications.
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spelling pubmed-93863212022-08-20 A Rare Cause of Gastrointestinal Bleeding: Aorto-Enteric Fistula Gadela, Tejaswi Paravathaneni, Mahati Manney, Deekshitha Bandla, Harikrishna Cureus Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery Aorto-enteric fistula is defined as an abnormal connection between the gastrointestinal system and the aorta. The patients who develop this condition usually have a grim prognosis and the cases are universally fatal unless intervened with an endovascular repair or open surgical repair. Given the rarity and the relative unfamiliarity of this condition, an understanding of the presentation, pathogenesis, and management is vital to prevent catastrophic complications. Cureus 2022-07-19 /pmc/articles/PMC9386321/ /pubmed/35989755 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.27023 Text en Copyright © 2022, Gadela 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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title A Rare Cause of Gastrointestinal Bleeding: Aorto-Enteric Fistula
title_full A Rare Cause of Gastrointestinal Bleeding: Aorto-Enteric Fistula
title_fullStr A Rare Cause of Gastrointestinal Bleeding: Aorto-Enteric Fistula
title_full_unstemmed A Rare Cause of Gastrointestinal Bleeding: Aorto-Enteric Fistula
title_short A Rare Cause of Gastrointestinal Bleeding: Aorto-Enteric Fistula
title_sort rare cause of gastrointestinal bleeding: aorto-enteric fistula
topic Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9386321/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35989755
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.27023
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