The cardiovascular diseases

ANEURYSM OF THE ABDOMINAL AORTA

- Definition
- A few explanations
- The symptoms
- What does the physician notice?
- How to make the diagnosis?
- Once the diagnosis made, an operative check-up is required
- Complications
- The causes
- Clinical shape, Evolution, Prognosis
- Treatment, Conclusion

THE CAUSES

1 - Inflammation of the arteries

* The Horton’s illness requires a check-up of the arteritis by biopsy of the temporal artery (localized at the level of the temple) and a treatment by corticoids.

* The Takayashu’s illness is exceptional when the aneurysm is isolated. The illness preferentially affects the young women originating from North Africa or the Caribbean. The diagnosis is made by an arteriography.

* The Kawasaki’s illness must be suspected facing every aneurysm in the child.

2 - Infectious aneurysms

It is most often a septic localization of septicaemia.

Every infection in blood can be responsible for the formation of an aneurysm.

3 - Aneurysms of the chronic aortic dissections

4 - False aneurysms, consequence of a suturebreak or of infectious graft of an aortic prosthesis.

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