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AIM: We aimed to identify and describe characteristic and diagnostic ultrasonographic features of arterioportal fistula cases. PATIENTS: In this case series we describe 3 patients with arterioportal fistula. By depending on shared sonographic features of these patients we describe a "sonographic pattern" for the sonographic diagnosis of arterioportal fistula. CONCLUSION: In summary; both of the artery and vein related with fistula were wider than normal and seen as adjacent anechoic circles, there was an aneurysmatic dilation on vein which has turbulent flow within it, the communication between the artery and aneurysm can be seen sonographically, both of the vessels have arterial flow, filling of the vein was retrograde and other branches of the artery and vein unrelated with aneurysm were all normal in dimension.
ABSTRACT
Vascular manifestations of Behçet's disease include venous and arterial occlusions, arterial aneurysm and pseudo-aneurysm formation. The main problem of the surgical treatment of vascular lesions in Behçet's disease is the high incidence of complications such as recurrent aneurysms, thrombosis and fistulization to the adjacent organs. Here we present a case of Behçet's disease with multiple complications after aortic reconstructive surgery, including perigraft infection, abscess distal to the graft, occlusion of arteries of the lower extremities, aortoenteric fistula and distal anastomotic site aneurysm rupture.
