Endovascular treatment of a bleeding secondary aortoenteric fistula in a high-risk patient.
We report a patient with life-threatening gastrointestinal bleeding caused by a secondary aortoenteric fistula (AEF). Because the patient had severe medical comorbidities, an endovascular approach was chosen for hemorrhage control. Endovascular treatment of aortoenteric fistula provides another treatment option that may be particularly valuable in patients whose comorbidities would preclude open repair.
Roche-Nagle
Graham
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Department of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. grnagle@rcsi.ie
Oreopolous
George
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