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[[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. | [[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. | ||
==Causes== | ==Causes== |
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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.
Causes
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