Aortic insufficiency

Aortic insufficiency is a topic covered in the Diagnosaurus.

To view the entire topic, please or .

Emergency Central is a collection of disease, drug, and test information including 5-Minute Emergency Medicine Consult, Davis’s Drug, McGraw-Hill Medical’s Diagnosaurus®, Pocket Guide to Diagnostic Tests, and MEDLINE Journals created for emergency medicine professionals. Explore these free sample topics:

-- The first section of this topic is shown below --

Etiology

  • Congenitally bicuspid aortic valve
  • Hypertension
  • Valvular calcification
  • Infective endocarditis
  • Rheumatic heart disease
  • Aortic root (or arch) disease: Marfan syndrome, aortic dissection, temporal (giant cell) arteritis, Takayasu's arteritis, ankylosing spondylitis, syphilis, Reiter's syndrome (reactive arthritis), cystic medial necrosis, sinus of Valsalva aneurysm, relapsing polychondritis

-- To view the remaining sections of this topic, please or --

Etiology

  • Congenitally bicuspid aortic valve
  • Hypertension
  • Valvular calcification
  • Infective endocarditis
  • Rheumatic heart disease
  • Aortic root (or arch) disease: Marfan syndrome, aortic dissection, temporal (giant cell) arteritis, Takayasu's arteritis, ankylosing spondylitis, syphilis, Reiter's syndrome (reactive arthritis), cystic medial necrosis, sinus of Valsalva aneurysm, relapsing polychondritis

There's more to see -- the rest of this topic is available only to subscribers.