Society guideline links: Screening for abdominal aortic aneurysm

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 and other peripheral aneurysms".)

Canada

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

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

United States

●American College of Radiology (ACR): Appropriateness Criteria for pulsatile abdominal mass, suspected abdominal aortic aneurysm (revised 2023)

●ACR: Appropriateness Criteria for screening for abdominal aortic aneurysm (2023)

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

●Society for Vascular Ultrasound (SVU): Vascular Technology Professional Performance Guidelines for screening for abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) (updated 2019)

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

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

Europe

●European Society for Vascular Surgery (ESVS): Clinical practice guidelines on the management of abdominal aorto-iliac artery aneurysms (2024)

●European Society of Cardiology (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)

United Kingdom

●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Guideline on abdominal aortic aneurysm – Diagnosis and management (2020)

Japan

●[In English] Japanese Circulation Society (JCS), Japanese Society for Cardiovascular Surgery (JSCVS), the Japanese Association for Thoracic Surgery (JATS), and the Japanese Society for Vascular Surgery (JSVS): Guideline on diagnosis and treatment of aortic aneurysm and aortic dissection, 2020 (published 2023)

●[In Japanese] JCS, JSCVS, JATS, and JSVS: Guidelines on diagnosis and treatment of aortic aneurysm and aortic dissection (2020)