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  • Title: [Gastrointestinal hemorrhage in an aged subject with an aortic prosthesis].
    Author: Van Olmen G, Verhaeghe R, Pelemans W.
    Journal: Tijdschr Gerontol Geriatr; 1985 Aug; 16(4):155-7. PubMed ID: 3876627.
    Abstract:
    An old patient with aortic prosthetic graft was admitted to the hospital with an upper gastro-intestinal bleeding. The prosthesis was seen protruding into the afferent loop of a previous gastrectomy. Despite immediate surgery to remove the aortic graft and to close the fistula, the patient died suddenly on the first postoperative day. A herald bleeding two months previously had passed without suspicion of a possible aorto-enteric fistula. The pathogenesis and clinical appearance of aorto-enteric fistulae are reviewed and the attitude in the elderly with aortic prostatic graft and upper gastro-intestinal blood loss is discussed.
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