AAA linked to inflammatory system

20,000 Americans die from a ruptured aorta each year, with 200,000 diagnosed with the threat of rupture of their body's largest blood vessel. Weakening and bulging of the wall of the aorta, causing Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA) is now believed to be caused by inflammatory pathology mediated by white blood cells called neutrophils. Risk factors for AAA include smoking, hypertension and inherited susceptibility to forming AAA. Symptoms associated with AAAs are back pain and abdominal symptoms and they are diagnosed on examination, x-ray, CT or MRI scan. Treatment for AAA is to control high blood pressure, stop smoking, and surgery is reserved for high-risk aneurysms, which is highly successful.

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Related Disease Topics:

• Abdominal aortic aneurysm
• AAA
• Hypertension

Related Symptom Topics:

• Back pain
• Abdominal symptoms

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About: AAA linked to inflammatory system

Date: 14 July 2005

Source: Medical News Today

URL: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=27415

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This summary article refers to the following medical categories:

• Cause of back pain
• Cause of abdominal symptoms
• Cause of AAA
• Cause of abdominal aortic aneurysm
• Cause of ripping pain
• Cause of aortic rupture
• Risk and AAA
• Risk and abdominal aortic aneurysm
• Risk and back pain
• Risk and ripping pain
• Risk and abdominal symptoms
• Risk and aorta
• Risk and inherited aortic disease
• Risk and ruptured aorta
• Risk and weak arteries
• Risk and weak blood vessels
• Risk and hypertension
• Risk and high blood pressure
• Risk and smoking
• Risk and inflammatory system
• Risk and inflammatory cells
• Riska and neutrophils
• Diagnosis
• Diagnosis and abdominal aortic aneurysm
• Diagnosis and AAA
• Diagnosis and back pain
• Diagnosis and ripping pain
• Diagnosis and abdominal symptoms
• Research and abdominal aortic aneurysm
• Research and AAA
• Research and neutrophils
• Research and weak arteries
• Research and weak blood vessels
• Research and inflammatory system

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