Aortoenteric fisulta: Difference between revisions
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* Classic triad of abdominal pain, GI bleeding and pulsatile abdominal mass only present in 23% of patients | |||
*Low grade fever, | *Low grade fever, | ||
*abd pain, | *abd pain, | ||
Revision as of 20:22, 25 March 2015
Background
Clinical Features
- Classic triad of abdominal pain, GI bleeding and pulsatile abdominal mass only present in 23% of patients
- Low grade fever,
- abd pain,
- Back pain,
- h/o AAA graft
- BRBPR
Differential Diagnosis
Undifferentiated lower gastrointestinal bleeding
- Upper GI Bleeding
- Diverticular disease
- Vascular ectasia / angiodysplasia
- Inflammatory bowel disease
- Infectious colitis
- Mesenteric Ischemia / ischemic colitis
- Meckel's diverticulum
- Colorectal cancer / polyps
- Hemorrhoids
- Aortoenteric fistula
- Nearly 100% mortality if untreated
- Consider in patients with gastrointestinal bleeding and known abdominal aortic aneurysms or aortic grafts
- Rectal foreign body
- Rectal ulcer (HIV, Syphilis, STI)
- Anal fissure