TY - JOUR
T1 - Inflammatory and infectious aortic diseases
AU - Deipolyi, Amy R.
AU - Czaplicki, Christopher D.
AU - Oklu, Rahmi
N1 - Funding Information:
R Oklu acknowledges support from National Institutes of Health (R01-HL137193, R01-EB24403, R21-EB021148, R03-CA172738) and Mayo Clinic.
Publisher Copyright:
© Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy. All rights reserved.
PY - 2018/4
Y1 - 2018/4
N2 - Aortitis is aortic inflammation, which can be due to inflammatory or infectious diseases. Left undiagnosed, aortitis can lead to aneurysm formation and rupture, in addition to ischemic compromise of major organs. Infectious aortic diseases include mycotic aneurysm and graft infection; the most common inflammatory diseases are Takayasu's and giant cell arteritis. We review the epidemiology, etiology, presentation and diagnosis, and treatment of these entities.
AB - Aortitis is aortic inflammation, which can be due to inflammatory or infectious diseases. Left undiagnosed, aortitis can lead to aneurysm formation and rupture, in addition to ischemic compromise of major organs. Infectious aortic diseases include mycotic aneurysm and graft infection; the most common inflammatory diseases are Takayasu's and giant cell arteritis. We review the epidemiology, etiology, presentation and diagnosis, and treatment of these entities.
KW - Aortitis
KW - Giant cell arteritis
KW - Mycotic aneurysm
KW - Takayasu's arteritis
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U2 - 10.21037/cdt.2017.09.03
DO - 10.21037/cdt.2017.09.03
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85049178288
VL - 8
SP - S61-S70
JO - Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy
JF - Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy
SN - 2223-3652
ER -