Aortitis
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Aortitis refers to a general descriptor that involves a broad category of infectious and non-infectious conditions where there is inflammation (i.e. vasculitis) of the aortic wall.
Clinical presentation
The presentation is non-specific with fever, pain and weight loss.
Pathology
Aetiology
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infectious
- syphilitic aortitis
- tuberculous aortitis
- pyogenic aortitis: especially Salmonella infection
- aortitis due to HIV
- infected (mycotic) aortic aneurysm
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non-infectious
- giant cell arteritis
- Takayasu arteritis
- other rheumatologic disorders
- rheumatoid arthritis
- systemic lupus erythematosus
- granulomatosis with polyangiitis
- Behçet disease
- polyarteritis nodosa
- microscopic polyangiitis
- HLA-B27–associated seronegative spondyloarthropathies
- Cogan syndrome
- chronic periaortitis
- idiopathic aortitis
- radiation-induced aortitis
- IgG4-related cardiovascular disease
-<li><a title="Tuberculous aortitis" href="/articles/tuberculous-aortitis">tuberculous aortitis</a></li>-<li>pyogenic aortitis: especially <em>Salmonella</em> infection</li>- +<li><a href="/articles/tuberculous-aortitis">tuberculous aortitis</a></li>
- +<li>
- +<a title="pyogenic aortitis" href="/articles/pyogenic-aortitis">pyogenic aortitis</a>: especially <em>Salmonella</em> infection</li>
-<li><a href="/articles/ankylosing-spondylitis">ankylosing spondylitis</a></li>- +<li><a href="/articles/ankylosing-spondylitis-1">ankylosing spondylitis</a></li>
-<li>idiopathic aortitis</li>-<li>radiation-induced aortitis</li>- +<li><a href="/articles/idiopathic-aortitis">idiopathic aortitis</a></li>
- +<li><a href="/articles/radiation-induced-aortitis">radiation-induced aortitis</a></li>