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 professionals and their patients...
There is no clinical guidance from the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) or NHS England for Thoracic Aortic Dissection. UK clinical practice therefore follows a variety of guidelines, which we have brought together and keep up-to-date on this Aortic Dissection guidelines page:
Current Guidelines
- 2024 EACTS/STS Guidelines for diagnosing and treating acute and chronic syndromes of the aortic organ
- 2024 Royal College of Emergency Medicine / Royal College of Radiologists (RCEM/RCR) Best Practice Guideline on the Diagnosis of Thoracic Aortic Dissection in the Emergency Department
- 2023 UK Consensus Guideline on inter-hospital transfer of Acute Aortic Syndrome patients to specialist centres
- 2015 American College of Emergency Physicians Clinical Policy Guideline on the Evaluation and Management of Thoracic Aortic Dissection
- 2023 Multimodality Imaging in Thoracic Aortic Diseases: a clinical consensus statement from the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging and the European Society of Cardiology Working Group
- 2022 American Heart Association / American College of Cardiology (ACC/AHA) Guideline for the Diagnosis and Management of Aortic Disease.
- 2021 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery expert consensus document: Surgical treatment of acute type A aortic dissection
- 2017 European Society for Vascular Surgery Guidelines on the Management of Descending Thoracic Aorta Diseases
- 2014 European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Guidelines on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Aortic Diseases.
- Activity Recommendations for Post-Aortic Dissection Patients, by Chadda et al., Circulation. 2014;130:e140-e142 (based on the ‘METs’ approach)
- NHS Test Criteria for Genetic Testing in Aortopathy (R125)
- Genes Associated with Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm and Dissection: 2019 Update and Clinical Implications
