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Aortic Diseases Guidelines

ESC Clinical Practice Guidelines

Document covering acute and chronic aortic diseases of the thoracic and abdominal aorta of the adult.

In addition to coronary and peripheral artery diseases, aortic diseases contribute to the wide spectrum of arterial diseases: aortic aneurysms, acute aortic syndromes (AAS) including aortic dissection (AD), intramural haematoma (IMH), penetrating atherosclerotic ulcer (PAU) and traumatic aortic injury (TAI), pseudo aneurysm, aortic rupture, atherosclerotic and inflammatory affections, as well as genetic diseases (e.g. Marfan syndrome) and congenital abnormalities including the coarctation of the aorta (CoA).

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Diseases of the Aorta
Acute Cardiac Care
CV Surgery - Aorta
Guidelines version available to download
Full text
Published in 2014
Reference Eur Heart J 2014;35:2873-2926 - Eur Heart J doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehu281
Corrigendum
Published in 2015
Reference Aortic Corrigendum T3
Web addenda
Published in 2014
Reference ESC Guidelines on Aortic Diseases Web Addenda
Essential messages
Published in 2014
Reference 2014 Take Home Messages & Gaps in Evidence
Pocket guidelines
Published in 2014
Reference Pocket Guidelines Abriged version
App
Published in 2014
Reference Aortic Pocket Guidelines Mobile App
Slide-set
Published in 2014
Reference 56 Slides 2014 Aortic Diseases
Summary card
Published in 2016
Reference Aorta Summary Card Online
CME questions
Published in 2014
Reference 36 CME Questions
Declarations of interest
Endorsed by cardiac societies
Albanian Society of Cardiology , Cardiology Society of Serbia , Association of Cardiologists of Bosnia & Herzegovina , Austrian Society of Cardiology , Belgian Society of Cardiology , British Cardiovascular Society , Bulgarian Society of Cardiology , Czech Society of Cardiology , Croatian Cardiac Society , German Cardiac Society , Hellenic Society of Cardiology , Georgian Society of Cardiology , French Society of Cardiology , Hungarian Society of Cardiology , Estonian Society of Cardiology , Israel Heart Society , Association of Cardiologists of Kazakhstan , Italian Federation of Cardiology , Kyrgyz Society of Cardiology , Latvian Society of Cardiology , Lebanese Society of Cardiology , Lithuanian Society of Cardiology , Luxembourg Society of Cardiology , Norwegian Society of Cardiology , Polish Cardiac Society , Portuguese Society of Cardiology , Romanian Society of Cardiology , Russian Society of Cardiology* , Spanish Society of Cardiology , Slovak Society of Cardiology , Tunisian Society of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery , Turkish Society of Cardiology
 
 
 
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