Aortitis
The aortitis is an inflammation of the aorta, ie the large body artery leading from the heart through the chest into the abdomen. A aortitis is a rare disease.
Causes
- A aortitis can bacterial infections of the blood, for example, occur with intravenous drug abuse. Rather, it comes to this, however, bacterial metastases in the heart valves or pneumonia.
- A common cause of aortitis was formerly the syphilis.
- It is rare to aortitis in the context of autoimmune diseases, such as Takayasu arteritis 's, giant cell arteritis of, polyarteritis nodosa of, the Kawasaki desease and other vasculitides.
- Atherosclerosis leads in the vascular deposits and to secondary inflammatory changes which are, however, usually not be considered aortitis.
Diagnostics
- Pulstastung
- Pulse measurement with the ultrasonic Doppler
- CT or MRI of the aorta
- Determine signs of inflammation in the blood
- Blood cultures for the detection of bacteremia
- Angiography
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- Http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic158.htm
- Http://www.rheuma-online.de/a-z/a/aortitis.html
- Infectious disease