Tasbirul Islam¹, George Hines², Douglas S. Katz³, William Purtil⁴ and Francis Castiller⁵

¹Fellow, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Winthrop-University Hospital, Mineola, NY, USA. ²Director, Department of Vascular Surgery, Winthrop-University Hospital, Mineola, NY, USA. Professor of Clinical Surgery, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY, USA. ³Vice Chair and Director of Body Imaging, Department of Radiology, Winthrop-University Hospital, Mineola, NY, USA. Professor of Clinical Radiology, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY, USA. ⁴Former Attending Surgeon, Department of Vascular Surgery, Winthrop-University Hospital, Mineola, NY, USA. ⁵Former Fellow, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Winthrop-University Hospital, Mineola, NY, USA

Abstract

We present a patient with gastrointestinal bleeding secondary to an aortoduodenal fistula. The patient had undergone an open surgical repair of an abdominal aortic aneurysm five years prior to admission.