Key result
A 50-year-old man with prior MI and AAA resection presents with gastrointestinal bleeding.
Case Report (n=1)
Case report of a 50-year-old man with a history of myocardial infarction and abdominal aortic aneurysm presenting with gastrointestinal bleeding.
Alerts clinicians to rare GI bleeding etiologies post-AAA repair; hypothesis-generating and should not change practice.
Presentation of Case*A 50-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of gastrointestinal bleeding.For more than 20 years he had experienced epigastric burning that was relieved by antacids. Fourteen years before admission he had an acute anteroseptal myocardial infarct, from which he recovered without incident. Hypertension was found and was treated with an unknown medication. Three years before entry pain developed in the back and in the left leg, and examination disclosed a pulsatile epigastric mass. An abdominal aortic aneurysm was resected, and the symptoms disappeared.Nine months before admission he began to pass maroon stools. He entered . . .
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Cabot et al. (1974) conducted a case report in Gastrointestinal bleeding (n=1). A 50-year-old man with a history of myocardial infarction and abdominal aortic aneurysm resection presented with gastrointestinal bleeding.
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