title: Persisting pain after endovascular treatment of a symptomatic aortic aneurysm.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Usually patients are admitted to hospital with a single diagnosis, but if complaints persist it is important to consider a synchronous secondary diagnosis.
  
  
  METHODS
  A 74-year-old woman presented with severe abdominal and back pain. On physical examination, a tender abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) was noted. Following endovascular treatment of the AAA, pain in the right lower abdomen persisted. Review of the pre-EVAR CT images revealed a foreign body in the terminal ileum, which was surgically removed.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Patients with foreign-body-related intestinal pain present with complaints of abdominal pain at initial presentation. The accompanied back pain and abdominal tenderness of the abdominal aorta in our case could indicate another diagnosis.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Persisting complaints post-intervention should not only arouse suspicion of an intervention-related complication, but also of a synchronous second diagnosis.
authors: Catharina Hospital, Department of Surgery, Michelangelolaan 2, 5623 EJ Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
authors: Loes
authors: L
authors: Mandigers
authors: Gert-Jan
authors: GJ
authors: Lauret
authors: Misha D P
authors: MD
authors: Luyer
authors: Joep A W
authors: JA
authors: Teijink
keywords: Foreign body; Persisting pain; Secondary diagnosis; Symptomatic aortic aneurysm
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