Aortitis classification
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Overview
Overview
Aortitis may be classified according to the cause into 2 groups: inflammatory and infectious.[1][2]
Classification
Classification
Aortitis may be classified according to the cause into 2 groups:[1][2]
Inflammatory
- Ankylosing spondylitis
- Behçet’s disease
- Cogan syndrome
- Giant cell arteritis
- Idiopathic aortitis
- Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis
- Kawasaki disease
- Microscopic polyangiitis
- Ormond disease
- Polyarteritis nodosa
- Psoriatic arthritis
- Reiter’s syndrome
- Relapsing polychondritis
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Sarcoidosis
- Systemic lupus erythematosus
- Takayasu arteritis
- Wegener granulomatosis
Infectious
References
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Bronze MS, Shirwany A, Corbett C, Schaberg DR (1999). “Infectious aortitis: an uncommon manifestation of infection with Streptococcus pneumoniae”. The American Journal of Medicine. 107 (6): 627–30. PMID 10651596. Unknown parameter
|month=ignored (help) - ↑ 2.0 2.1 Gornik HL, Creager MA (2008). “Aortitis”. Circulation. 117 (23): 3039–51. doi:10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.107.760686. PMC 2759760. PMID 18541754. Unknown parameter
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