Aneurysm of the Abdominal Aorta

Skromak, Stanley J.; O’Neill, James C.; Ciccone, Emmet F.; Snyder, Robert J.

doi:10.1016/s0016-5085(19)35650-1

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“…Rottino (1943) collected 32 reported examples; a further review by Roll and Caudell (1956) revealed 24 others to which they added two more. Skromak et al (1957) collected 53 examples, reported since 1843, of aneurysms rupturing into the gut. They give the age, sex, and aetiology of most of the cases and added two more of their own.…”

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Rupture of Aortic Aneurysms Into the Gut

Gresham¹,

Johnson²

1959

Heart

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Rupture of an aortic aneurysm into the gut is uncommon. The duodenum is most often involved, stomach and jejunum being next in order of frequency. Involvement of the cesophagus is now decidedly rare probably due to the declining incidence of cardiovascular syphilis.We report three cases of aortic aneurysm; two in the abdomen ruptured into the second part of the duodenum and one in the thorax into the cesophagus. A fistula between aorta and inferior vena cava was also present in one of the cases with an abdominal aneurysm; in the other the wall of the inferior vena cava was partially eroded.CASE REPORTS Case 1. This woman, aged 84, was found dead at home: she had, apparently, been in good health for the past thirty years.Necropsy (P54.086). A small saccular aneurysm (3 0 cm. diameter) arose from the very atheromatous aorta 7 cm. distal to the coeliac axis. It contained thrombus and communicated with the second part of the duodenum through a hole, 0 5 cm. diameter, at the duodenum end (Fig.

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confidence: 99%