Aortic regurgitation 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]; Varun Kumar, M.B.B.S.; Lakshmi Gopalakrishnan, M.B.B.S.

Overview

Aortic insufficiency can be an acute illness or a chronic illness and the causes differ depending upon the acuity of the disease. In general, aortic insufficiency is due to abnormalities of the aortic valve itself or the aortic root.

Differential Diagnosis of the Causes of Acute Aortic Insufficiency

In alphabetical order:

• After aortic balloon valvotomy
• Aortic dissection
• Bacterial Endocarditis
• Blunt chest trauma
• Myxomatous aortic valve
• Rheumatic Fever

Differential Diagnosis of the Causes of Chronic Aortic Insufficiency

In alphabetical order:

• Ankylosing Spondylitis
• Aortic Dissection
• Arteriosclerosis
• Bacterial Endocarditis
• Bechterew's Disease
• Bicuspid aortic valve
• Cystic medial necrosis of the aorta
• Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome
• Hypertension
• Marfan Syndrome
• Myxomatous aortic valve
• Polymyalgia Rheumatica
• Pseudoxanthoma Elasticum
• Reiter's Syndrome
• Rheumatic Fever
• Rheumatoid Arthritis
• Sinus of Valsalva Aneurysm
• Syphilis
• Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
• Turner's Syndrome
• Ventricular Septal Defect
• Weight loss medications

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
• Trauma

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