Serie de casos. Experiencia de un único centro en el tratamiento de fístulas aortoentéricas

Abstract

ObjectiveTo analyse our experience and results of a rare, complex and serious disease, aortoenteric fistula (AEF). Material and methodsNine patients (seven males and two females) with secondary aortoenteric fistula treated during the period 2000-2010, were grouped according to hemodynamic stability: stable three males. Four males and two females were unstable.Previous aortic pathology and its treatment were: four Leriche syndrome, two aortic aneurysms and a ruptured aortic aneurysm treated by aortobifemoral bypass and two EVAR (endovascular aneurysms repair). Other data collected: cardiovascular risk factors, previous abdominal pathology and its surgery, the location of the secondary AEF, period of time until the appearance of AEF, evolution and recurrence. ResultsThe secondary AEF appeared after a mean time of 85.8 months (median 104, range 5-204). Four were treated with extra-anatomical bypass, and three were unstable. Three patients with in situ repair, two unstable. Two with endograft, one unstable. There was one death during surgery, unstable, and during the first 30 days, four patients died, 3 unstable, one stable. The four surviving patients had a recurrence of the AEF after a mean of three months (range, 2-5), only two were treated, one patient with endograft and one with axilobifemoral bypass. ConclusionsSecondary AEF is a serious, rare and complex complication, with high morbidity and mortality. No standard treatment exists, although the urgent treatment of bleeding is essential, including endovascular therapy, with or without a new intervention for definitive treatment.