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