PANCREATICODUODENAL ARTERY ANEURYSM - A LIFE-THREATENING CAUSE OF GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE - CASE-REPORT AND REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE

Authors
DEWEERTH A BUGGISCH P NICOLAS V MAAS R
Citation
A. Deweerth et al., PANCREATICODUODENAL ARTERY ANEURYSM - A LIFE-THREATENING CAUSE OF GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE - CASE-REPORT AND REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE, Hepato-gastroenterology, 45(23), 1998, pp. 1651-1654
Citations number
16
Categorie Soggetti
Gastroenterology & Hepatology",Surgery
Journal title
Hepato-gastroenterology → ACNP
ISSN journal
01726390
Volume
45
Issue
23
Year of publication
1998
Pages
1651 - 1654
Database
ISI
SICI code
0172-6390(1998)45:23<1651:PAA-AL>2.0.ZU;2-9
Abstract
Gastrointestinal bleeding caused by erosion of a pancreaticoduodenal a rtery aneurysm in patients with pancreatitis is a rare but potentially life threatening disease. In this case report, the successful treatme nt of a patient bleeding from a ruptured pancreaticoduodenal artery an eurysm is described. A review of the literature of reported cases disc usses the value of early angiographic intervention in patients with un explained gastrointestinal hemorrhage and suspected rupture of an aneu rysm.