title: [Aorta-caval fistula as a complication to abdominal aorta aneurysm].
abstract: An 84 year-old man with a history of mild well-controlled hypertension was admitted acute with severe chest and epigastrial pains, radiation to the back and nausea lasting one hour under the diagnosis acute coronary syndrome. Acute computed tomography of the thorax and abdomen showed an 8 x 10 cm infrarenal abdominal aorta aneurysm with a 10 mm fistula through the wall of the aorta into the inferior caval vein.
authors.affiliation: Medicinsk Afdeling, Fredericia Sygehus, 7000 Fredericia, Denmark. jenspeterholm@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Jens Peter Provstgaard
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Schmidt-Holm
authors.forename: Vibeke Brogaard
authors.initials: VB
authors.lastname: Hansen
mesh_terms: D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D017544:Aortic Aneurysm, Abdominal / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery; D001019:Aortic Rupture / Q000150:complications*; D001164:Arteriovenous Fistula / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014682:Vena Cava, Inferior / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging