Successful treatment of secondary aortoenteric fistula with a Valdoni-Strong's procedure

Murat Akın,

doi:10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2011.026

Murat Akın¹, Hakan Gökbayır², Tevfik Tezcaner³, Kadir Kılıç², Ersin Özdemir², Zafer Ferahköşe²

¹Department of General Surgery, Medicine Faculty of Gazi University, Ankara
²Department of General Surgery, Bayındır Medical Center, Ankara
³Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Bayındır Medical Center, Ankara

DOI : 10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2011.026

Secondary aortoenteric fistula is one of the important causes of gastrointestinal bleeding following synthetic graft repair of the abdominal aorta. Secondary aortoenteric fistula is frequently observed after an aneurysm repair (from 0.3 up to 2% in the first 5 years), and associated with high rates of mortality and morbidity. The diagnosis of secondary aortoenteric fistula can be difficult. In this article, we present a case of gastrointestinal bleeding due to secondary aortoenteric fistula, successfully treated with Valdoni-Strong's procedure.

Keywords : Gastrointestinal bleeding; secondary aortoenteric fistula; Valdoni-strong’s procedure

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