Society guideline links: Aortic and other peripheral aneurysms

Introduction — This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.

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Links to related guidelines are provided separately. (See "Society guideline links: Aortic dissection and other acute aortic syndromes" and "Society guideline links: Acute extremity ischemia".)

International

●Enhanced Recovery After Surgery Society (ERAS) Society and Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS): Consensus statement on perioperative care in open aortic vascular surgery (2022)

●Society for Cardiovascular Pathology (SCVP) and Association for European Cardiovascular Pathology (AECVP): Consensus statement on surgical pathology of the aorta – II. Noninflammatory degenerative diseases: Nomenclature and diagnostic criteria (2016)

●SCVP and AECVP: Consensus statement on surgical pathology of the aorta – I. Inflammatory diseases (2015)

Canada

●Canadian Society for Vascular Surgery (CSVS): 2020 review and position statement for the screening for abdominal aortic aneurysms in Canada (published 2021)

●Choosing Wisely Canada: Don't perform endovascular repair of abdominal aortic aneurysms in most asymptomatic high-risk patients with limited life expectancy (updated 2021)

●Choosing Wisely Canada: Don't perform open or endovascular repair in most asymptomatic patients with small abdominal aortic aneurysms (<5cm in women, <5.5cm in men) (updated 2021)

●Choosing Wisely Canada: Don't perform unnecessarily frequent ultrasound examinations in asymptomatic patients with small abdominal aortic aneurysms. Abdominal aortic aneurysms between 4 to 4.9 cm in diameter should be surveyed by annual ultrasound (updated 2021)

●Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care (CTFPHC): Recommendations on screening for abdominal aortic aneurysm in primary care (2017)

●Canadian Cardiovascular Society (CCS)/Canadian Society of Cardiac Surgeons (CSCS)/CSVS: Joint position statement on open and endovascular surgery for thoracic aortic disease (2016)

●CCS: Position statement on the management of thoracic aortic disease (2014)

United States

●American College of Cardiology (ACC)/American Heart Association (AHA): Guideline for the diagnosis and management of aortic disease (2022)

●Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) Society and Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS): Consensus statement on perioperative care in open aortic vascular surgery (2022)

●SVS: Clinical practice guidelines on popliteal artery aneurysms (2022)

●American College of Radiology (ACR): ACR Appropriateness Criteria on nontraumatic aortic disease (2021)

●American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM): Practice parameter for the performance of diagnostic and screening ultrasound examinations of the abdominal aorta in adults (2021)

●SVS: Clinical practice guidelines of thoracic endovascular aortic repair for descending thoracic aortic aneurysms (2021)

●SVS: Clinical practice guidelines on the management of visceral aneurysms (2020)

●Society for Vascular Ultrasound (SVU): Vascular technology professional performance guidelines for abdominal aortoiliac duplex evaluation (updated 2019)

●SVU: Vascular technology professional performance guidelines for extracranial cerebrovascular duplex ultrasound (updated 2019)

●SVU: Vascular technology professional performance guidelines for lower extremity arterial duplex evaluation (updated 2019)

●SVU: Vascular technology professional performance guidelines for mesenteric/splanchnic artery duplex imaging (updated 2019)

●SVU: Vascular technology professional performance guidelines for renal artery duplex imaging (updated 2019)

●SVU: Vascular technology professional performance guidelines for screening for abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) (updated 2019)

●SVU: Vascular technology professional performance guidelines for upper extremity arterial duplex evaluation (updated 2019)

●US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF): Final recommendation statement on abdominal aortic aneurysm – Screening (2019)

●ACR: ACR Appropriateness Criteria on abdominal aortic aneurysm follow-up (without repair) (2018)

●SVS: Practice guidelines on the care of patients with an abdominal aortic aneurysm (2018)

●ACR: ACR Appropriateness Criteria on abdominal aortic aneurysm – Interventional planning and follow-up (revised 2017)

●ACR: ACR Appropriateness Criteria on thoracic aorta interventional planning and follow-up (2017)

●Western Vascular Society (WVS): Guidelines for transfer of patients with ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm (2017)

●ACR: ACR Appropriateness Criteria on pulsatile abdominal mass, suspected abdominal aortic aneurysm (revised 2016)

●American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) and European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI): Guidelines and standards for the multimodality imaging of diseases of the thoracic aorta in adults (2015)

●American College of Cardiology Foundation (ACCF)/AHA: Compilation of 2005 and 2011 guideline recommendations on the management of patients with peripheral artery disease – 5. Aneurysms of the abdominal aorta, its branch vessels, and the lower extremities: Recommendations (2013)

●AHA: Scientific statement for the surgical management of descending thoracic aortic disease – Open and endovascular approaches (2010)

●Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR): Clinical practice guidelines for endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair (2010)

Europe

●European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS) and European Society for Vascular Surgery (ESVS): An expert consensus document on current options and recommendations for the treatment of thoracic aortic pathologies involving the aortic arch (2019)

●ESVS: Clinical practice guidelines on the management of abdominal aorto-iliac artery aneurysms (2019)

●European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and ESVS: 2017 guidelines on the diagnosis and treatment of peripheral arterial diseases (published 2018)

●ESVS: Clinical practice guidelines for the management of descending thoracic aorta diseases (2017)

●Society for Cardiovascular Pathology (SCVP) and Association for European Cardiovascular Pathology (AECVP): Consensus statement on surgical pathology of the aorta – II. Noninflammatory degenerative diseases: Nomenclature and diagnostic criteria (2016)

●American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) and European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI): Guidelines and standards for the multimodality imaging of diseases of the thoracic aorta in adults (2015)

●SCVP and AECVP: Consensus statement on surgical pathology of the aorta – I. Inflammatory diseases (2015)

●ESC: Guidelines on the diagnosis and treatment of aortic diseases – Document covering acute and chronic aortic diseases of the thoracic and abdominal aorta of the adult (2014)

●Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe (CIRSE): Quality improvement guidelines for imaging detection and treatment of endoleaks following endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) (2013)

●CIRSE: Standard of practice for the interventional management of isolated iliac artery aneurysms (2011)

●ESVS: Clinical practice guidelines for the management of abdominal aortic aneurysms (2011)

●CIRSE: Standard of practice for the endovascular treatment of thoracic aortic aneurysms and type B dissections (2009)

United Kingdom

●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Interventional procedures guidance on endoanchoring systems in endovascular aortic aneurysm repair (2022)

●NICE: Guideline on abdominal aortic aneurysm – Diagnosis and management (2020)

●Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM): Best practice guidelines for the management and transfer of patients with a diagnosis of ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm to a specialist vascular centre (2019)

●NICE: Medical technologies guidance on the E-vita open plus for treating complex aneurysms and dissections of the thoracic aorta (2013, updated 2018)

●NICE: Interventional procedures guidance on endovascular stent-grafting of popliteal aneurysms (2011)

Australia–New Zealand

●Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand (CSANZ): Update on the diagnosis and management of inherited aortopathies, including Marfan syndrome (2016)

Japan

●Japanese Circulation Society (JCS): Guidelines for diagnosis and treatment of aortic aneurysm and aortic dissection – Digest version (2011)