Endovascular repair of an aortoenteric fistula in a high-risk patient
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Published on: July 7, 2013
A Deshpande1, M Lovelock, P Mossop
1Department of Vascular Surgery, St. Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia.
Purpose:
To describe the endovascular repair of an aortoenteric fistula in a high-risk patient.
Methods And Results:
A Vanguard tube stent-graft was deployed at the upper anastomotic suture line of a secondary aortoenteric fistula, successfully sealing the communication between the aorta and the third part of the duodenum without occlusion of the renal arteries.
Conclusions:
Endovascular stent-graft repair of aortoenteric fistulae is possible, but further evaluation of this technique will determine its role in the management of this complication.
