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intraabdominal abscesses. Additionally, he suffered from frailty, malnutrition, and chronic kidney disease.
After discussion regarding his treatment options, he was adamant on intervention to stop the GI bleeding.
Therefore, an endovascular intervention was attempted as a palliative procedure. Although our patient
initially demonstrated cessation of his GI bleeding following endovascular plug deployment, this success
was short-lived and the patient experienced recurrence of his symptoms with ultimate exsanguination and
death.

DECLARATIONS
Authors’ contributions
Concept: Wang SK
Design, literature search, manuscript preparation, manuscript editing, review: Wang SK, King JR, Gutwein
AR, Motaganahalli RL, Fajardo A, Lemmon GW

Financial support and sponsorship
None.

Conflicts of interest
There are no conflicts of interest.

Patient consent
Written consent was obtained from the family of the deceased and is available upon request.

Ethics approval
Not applicable.

Copyright
© The Author(s) 2018.

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