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==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
Atherosclerosis and hypertension are associated with spontaneous dissection, while blunt trauma injury and sudden deceleration in a motor vehicle accident is a major cause of aortic dissection. | |||
==Common Causes== | |||
*[[Aging]] | |||
*[[Motor vehicle accident]] | *[[Motor vehicle accident]] | ||
*[[Bicuspid aortic valve]] | |||
==Causes in Alphabetical Order== | |||
Other risk factors and conditions associated with the development of aortic dissection include: | Other risk factors and conditions associated with the development of aortic dissection include: | ||
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor-In-Chief: Cafer Zorkun, M.D., Ph.D. [2]
Overview
Atherosclerosis and hypertension are associated with spontaneous dissection, while blunt trauma injury and sudden deceleration in a motor vehicle accident is a major cause of aortic dissection.
Common Causes
Causes in Alphabetical Order
Other risk factors and conditions associated with the development of aortic dissection include:
- Aging
- Bicuspid aortic valve
- Chest trauma
- Coarctation of the aorta
- Connective tissue disorders
- Ehlers-Danlos syndrome
- Heart surgery or procedures
- Marfan syndrome
- Third trimester of pregnancy
- Pseudoxanthoma elasticum
- Tertiary syphilis
- Turner's syndrome
- Vascular inflammation due to conditions such as arteritis and syphilis