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Healthcare professionals interested in Aortic Dissection are a vital part of our work. Here is what we want you to know. Thanks are due to member Mr. Vipin Mehta, Consultant Cardiac Surgeon at Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester, for providing and reviewing the content of this section.

Aortic Dissection Symptoms

Aortic Dissection is more common than you think. It causes 3,000 deaths a year in the UK - more than road traffic accidents. Our patient charity is a...

THINK AORTA for Healthcare Professionals

THINK AORTA is the simple, effective diagnostic strategy for acute Aortic Dissection that we launched as a high-impact campaign which is now saving...

Aortic Dissection Patient Guide

Aortic Dissection: The Patient Guide is the definitive handbook, written by patients for patients, with clinical endorsements from three leading...

Risk Factors

Multiple risk factors have been identified for aortic dissection. These include lifestyle and genetic factors. This page explains more about these...

Aortic Dissection Clinical Guidelines

We have brought together on this page the latest national and international Aortic Dissection guidelines, for ease of reference by all healthcare...

NHS Acute Aortic Dissection Toolkit

NHS England responded to our call for action to improve patient outcomes by publishing the Acute Aortic Dissection Toolkit. We provide the patient...

Aortic Specialist Nurses

Our patients love Aortic Specialist Nurses. They make a massive difference to life-long patient care in Aortic Dissection. Every specialist Aortic...

Membership for Healthcare Professionals

Membership of the national patient charity is free for healthcare professionals in the UK & Ireland with an interest in Aortic Dissection.

Healthcare Professional FAQs

Here are answers to the questions we are most frequently asked by healthcare professionals