An unusual cause of gastrointestinal bleed.

Indian J Crit Care Med

Department of Gastroenterology, St. John's Medical College Hospital, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.

Published: August 2014

Gastrointestinal (GI) bleed often brings the patient to the emergency medical service with great anxiety. Known common causes of GI bleed include ulcers, varices, Mallory-Weiss among others. All causes of GI bleed should be considered however unusual during the evaluation. Aortoenteric fistula (AEF) is one of the unusual causes of GI bleed, which has to be considered especially in patients with a history of abdominal surgery in general and aortic surgery in particular.

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