Aortitis

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Aortitis Classification and external resources
ICD-10	I 77.6
ICD-9	447.6
eMedicine	med/158
MeSH	D001025

Aortitis is the inflammation of the aorta.

1 Causes
2 Treatment
3 Prognosis
4 References

[edit] Causes

This inflammation has a number of possible causes, to include: trauma, viral infection, certain immune disorders, and bacterial infection (notably, syphilis). ^[1]

[edit] Treatment

Management appears to include the following treatment priorities; stop the inflammation, treat complications, prevent and monitor for re-occurrence.

[edit] Prognosis

If untreated, has three distinct phases.^[1] A prepulseless inflammatory stat. Phase two includes vascular inflammation with pain secondary to the condition, along with tenderness to palpation over the site. Last phase includes symptoms of ischemia and pain associated with the use of limbs. Limbs are also cool and clammy in this stage.

[edit] References

^ ^a ^b eMedicine - Aortitis : Article by Masato Okada, MD, FACP, FACR, FAAAAI. Retrieved on 2007-07-28.

v • d • e Cardiovascular disease: vascular disease - Circulatory system pathology (I60-I99, 430-459)

Cerebrovascular diseases	Intracranial hemorrhage: Extra-axial (Epidural, Subdural, Subarachnoid) - Cerebral/Intra-axial (Intraventricular, Intraparenchymal) Stroke/Brain ischemia: Vertebrobasilar insufficiency (Subclavian steal syndrome) - TIA Carotid artery stenosis - Cerebral aneurysm - Binswanger's disease - Moyamoya disease Anterior spinal artery syndrome

Arteries, arterioles and capillaries	Arterial occlusive disease: Arteriosclerosis (Atherosclerosis, Intermittent claudication, Atheroma) - Renal artery stenosis - Fibromuscular dysplasia - Degos disease Peripheral vascular disease: Raynaud's phenomenon/Raynaud's disease - Erythromelalgia Aneurysm (Aortic/Abdominal aortic) - Dissection (Aortic, Carotid, Vertebral) - Pseudoaneurysm Arteritis (Aortitis) - Buerger's disease Arteriovenous fistula - Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia Nevus (Spider angioma)

Veins	Venous thrombosis/Phlebitis/Thrombophlebitis: Deep vein thrombosis - May-Thurner syndrome - Portal vein thrombosis - Budd-Chiari syndrome - Renal vein thrombosis - Paget-Schroetter disease - Post-thrombotic syndrome Varicose veins: Varicocele - Gastric varices - Portacaval anastomosis (Hemorrhoid, Esophageal varices, Caput medusae) Superior vena cava syndrome - Venous ulcer

Arteries or veins	Vasculitis - Thrombosis - Embolism (Pulmonary embolism, Cholesterol embolism)

Lymphatic vessels/nodes	Lymphadenitis - Lymphedema - Lymphangitis

Blood pressure	Hypertension: Hypertensive heart disease - Hypertensive nephropathy - Secondary hypertension (Renovascular hypertension) Hypotension: Orthostatic hypotension

See also congenital (Q20-Q28, 745-747)