Non-infectious diseases of the aorta and large arteries

Abstract

This article describes the various forms of inflammatory lesions of the aorta and large arteries, including chronic periaortitis, as well as the diagnostic methods are considered. Large vessel vasculitis represent the most common entities, however, there is also an association with other rheumatological or inflammatory diseases, drug-induced or paraneoplastic entities. Instrumental imaging modalities play an important role in the diagnosis.

Keywords

• aortitis
• systemic vasculitis
• giant cell arteritis
• takayasu arteritis
• cogan syndrome
• behcet disease
• anca-associated vasculitis
• ormond's disease
• idiopathic retroperitoneal fibrosis
• igg4-related disease
• erdheim–chester disease
• imaging in diagnosis
• large vessel vasculitis