Aortitis
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
Etiology
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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
Related Radiopaedia articles
Aortic pathology
- acute aortic syndrome
- aortic aneurysms
- inflammatory
- congenital
- aortic coarctation
- aortic pseudocoarctation
- cervical aortic arch
- interrupted aortic arch
- transposition of the great arteries
- variant anatomy of the aortic arch
- traumatic aortic injury
- miscellaneous
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