SAQ 378 – Vascular – aortoenteric fistula after EVAR

A 65-year-old man presents with two weeks of intermittent fever, abdominal pain, and frank red rectal bleeding. He has mild mitral stenosis, chronic atrial fibrillation treated with dabigatran, and an abdominal aortic aneurysm repaired endovascularly one year ago.

List two (2) likely diagnoses.

(Marked out of 2.0)

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List four (4) investigations and give one rationale for each.

(Marked out of 8.0)
</p> <table class="saq-prop-table"> <thead> <tr> <th>Investigation</th> <th>Rationale</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td>1.</td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td>2.</td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td>3.</td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td>4.</td> <td></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p>

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Name one drug that may reverse dabigatran.

(Marked out of 1.0)

/ 1

List three (3) organisms that may cause vascular prosthetic infection.

(Marked out of 3.0)

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Total Score: 0 / 14

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