Aortic Disease

What you will learn

We included this chapter because Aortic disease is strongly associated with congenital heart disease. You will see aortic dilatation and dissection in genetic forms of connective tissue disease and patients with congenital aortic valve abnormalities. This chapter will teach you how to assess and measure the aorta. Next, we talk about Turner syndrome, Marfan syndrome, Vascular Ehlers Danlos syndrome, and Loeys Dietz Syndrome and explain the different phenotypes of aortic dilatation. In the last section, we tackle the issue of coarctation and show you how to image and grade this pathology.

Topics: 

• How to measure the aorta
• Aortic dilatation/ aneurysm
• Genetic syndromic thoracic aneurysms
• Turner Syndrome
• Marfan Syndrome
• Vascular Ehlers Danlos Syndrome- Loeys Dietz Syndrome
• Coarctation