aetiology of ischaemic heart disease
Last reviewed 01/2018
The vast majority of ischaemic heart disease is caused by coronary artery atherosclerosis.
Rarer causes of ischaemic heart disease include:
- arteritides:
- systemic lupus erythematosus
- polyarteritis nodosa
- syphilis
- Takayasu's arteritis
- rheumatoid arthritis
- ankylosing spondylitis
- embolism:
- infective endocarditis
- left heart thrombus or tumour
- prosthetic valve thrombus
- cardiac catheterisation
- paradoxical embolism
- coronary artery wall thickening:
- amyloidosis
- radiation therapy
- Hurler's disease
- pseudoxanthoma elasticum
- aortic dissection causing coronary dissection
- coronary spasm
- congenital arterial disease:
- anomalous derivation of coronary arteries from the pulmonary artery
- arteriovenous fistula