Aortic regurgitation differential diagnosis

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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]

Differentiating Aortic Insufficiency from other Diseases

Differential Diagnosis Based Upon Aortic Valvular Causes

• Bicuspid aortic valve
• Collagen vascular disease
• Senile or degenerative calcific aortic valve disease
• Endocarditis
• Myxomatous aortic valve
• Rheumatic fever
• Rheumatoid arthritis
• Sinus of Valsalva Aneurysm
• Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
• Trauma
• Turner's Syndrome
• Ventricular Septal Defect
• Weight loss medications

Differential Diagnosis Based Upon Abnormalities of the Ascending Aorta

• Ankylosing spondylitis
• Aortic dissection
• Arteriosclerosis
• Bechterew's Disease
• Behcet's syndrome
• Cystic medial necrosis of the aorta
• Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome
• Giant cell arteritis
• Hypertension
• Idiopathic dilation of the ascending aorta
• Marfan syndrome
• Osteogenesis imperfecta
• Polymyalgia Rheumatica
• Pseudoxanthoma Elasticum
• Psoriatic arthritis
• Reiter's syndrome
• Relapsing polychondritis
• Senile aortic ectasia and dilation
• Spondyloarthropathy
• Syphilitic aortitis
• Takayasu arteritis
• Trauma
• Ulcerative colitis
• Whipple's disease