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Aneurysm causes
Introduction
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Causes
Causes
Causes by Underlying Mechanism
- Familial
- Hypertension
- Trauma
- Collagen vascular disease
- Lipid abnormalities
- Infectious and inflammatory conditions
Causes by Anatomic Location
- Thoracic aortic aneurysm
- Marfan’s syndrome
- Trauma
- Ehlers-danlos syndrome
- Infection
- Syphilis
- Other bacterial or mycotic infections
- Degenerative changes
- Arteriosclerosis
- Cystic medial necrosis
- Inflammation
- Abdominal aortic aneurysm
- Polycystic disease
- Marfan’s syndrome
- Atherosclerosis
- Lipid metabolism disorders
- Hypertension
- Aortic dissection
- Mycotic infection
- Cystic medial necrosis
- Ehlers-danlos syndrome
- Peripheral arteries
- Coronary arteries
- Atherosclerosis
- Bacterial infection
- Ehlers-danlos syndrome
- Congenital syphilis
- Scleroderma
- Polyarteritis nodosa
- Septic emboli
- Kawasaki disease
- Left ventricle
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