title: Angiographic and interventional management for a esophagopericardial fistula.
abstract: We reported a case of a 78-year-old patient with esophagopericardial fistula who was referred for angiographic and interventional management. Emergent implantation of the esophageal stent could not lengthen or even save the patient's life. One week later, the patient died of multiple organ failure, which was probably from formation of granulation tissue and stent migration. Therefore, if the inflammatory to the esophagopericardial fistula had been better controlled initially, and the implantation of the esophageal stent delayed, our patient would have survived.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Affiliated hospital of Guangdong Medical College, No. 57, Renming Road, Zhanjiang, 524001, Guangdong, People's Republic of China, zjwukeng@hotmail.com.
authors.forename: Keng
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Qiong
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: You
authors.forename: Song-Jian
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: He
authors.forename: Hai-Liang
authors.initials: HL
authors.lastname: Mo
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000792:Angiography; D004937:Esophageal Fistula / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D005402:Fistula / Q000601:surgery*; D005548:Foreign-Body Migration / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D011026:Pneumopericardium / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D015641:Radiography, Interventional; D015607:Stents / Q000009:adverse effects*