Demonstrates successful endovascular stent-graft repair for gastrointestinal bleeding in an aortoenteric fistula patient, suggesting a less invasive alternative to open surgery.
PURPOSE: To describe a technique for the endovascular treatment of aortoenteric fistula. METHODS AND RESULTS: A 67-year-old man who had undergone aortobi-iliac grafting for aneurysmal disease 8 years previously presented with life-threatening upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage. Endoscopy after resuscitation did not identify the source of the bleeding. Computed tomographic (CT) scanning and angiography revealed pseudoaneurysm formation at the upper anastomosis 1 cm below the renal arteries. Measurements were taken for endovascular repair. Uncomplicated emergency aortic endografting for exclusion of the pseudoaneurysm was performed using a 28-mm x 3.75-cm AneuRx device. Gastrointestinal hemorrhage ceased. CT scanning at 6 months confirmed the absence of a pseudoaneurysm, and the patient remains symptom free at 18 months. CONCLUSIONS: Endovascular treatment of aortoenteric fistula may represent a technique for treating gastrointestinal hemorrhage and for lessening the morbidity and mortality of open repair.
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