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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Oct 9.
Published in final edited form as: Circulation. 2008 Jun 10;117(23):3039–3051. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.107.760686

Table 1.

Causes of Aortitis

Inflammatory
Large-Vessel Vasculitis
Giant cell arteritis (temporal arteritis)
Takayasu arteritis
Rheumatoid arthritis
Systemic lupus erythematosis
HLA-B27 associated spondyloarthropathies

  • Ankylosing spondylitis

  • Reiter syndrome

Other vasculitides
  • ANCA-associated* vasculitides
    • ■ Wegener's arteritis
    • ■ Polyarteritis nodosum
    • ■ Microscopic polyangiitis

  • Behçet's disease

  • Cogan syndrome

  • Relapsing polychondritis

Sarcoidosis
Isolated Aortitis
Isolated idiopathic (thoracic) aortitis
Chronic periaortitis

  • Idiopathic retroperitoneal fibrosis (Ormond's disease)

  • Inflammatory abdominal aortic aneurysm

  • Perianeurysmal aortitis

  • Idiopathic isolated abdominal periaortitis

Infectious
Bacterial

  • Salmonella spp.

  • Staphylococcus spp.

  • Streptococcus pneumoniae

  • Other

Luetic (Syphilis)
Mycobacterial (i.e., M. tuberculosis)
Other
*

ANCA – Anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody