If you want to understand #AorticDissection patients and their experience of this condition, watch/listen to the #THINKAORTA podcast. Episode 1 available on all platforms now. Episode 2 coming this week. #AortaEd

We are reaching capacity for the Interdisciplinary Aortic Dissection Symposium on Friday 6th September. Registration will close this Friday - register now to guarantee your place! aorticdissectionsymposium.com Vascular Society Rouleaux Club The British Society of Interventional Radiology BSIR Trainees (British Society of IR Trainees) BSET SVN (Society of Vascular Nurses)

Episode 2, Part 1 of the #THINKAORTA podcast is here! Patient leaders Lindsey Rusche & Gareth Owens chat with Simon Rose of School of Health Sciences UEA about #Marfan syndrome, #AorticDissection & patient leadership of our global campaign. Part 2 next week. #AortaEd youtube.com/watch?v=KQnxAo…

#THINKAORTA has been saving lives in acute #AorticDissection in NHS Midlands since 2021. We're looking forward to this regional meeting to share learnings and make further progress. Aortic Dissection Awareness UK & Ireland NHS United Lincs

Our Chair Gareth Owens sharing stories from his life with Marfan syndrome about how to get the best care for Eyes-Heart-Joints-Aorta at the TheMarfanFoundation Marfan Trust Patient Symposium in London yesterday. Some great contributions to the day from Royal Brompton Hospital & Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust too.

#THINKAORTA saves lives. Read our patient member Stevie's story of surviving an acute Type A #AorticDissection in Glasgow this year. Royal College of Emergency Medicine The Royal College of Radiologists SCTS UK Vascular Society Heart Research UK UK-AS

In Ep2 Pt2 of the #THINKAORTA podcast, our Chair Gareth Owens talks about the impact of our life-saving #THINKAORTA campaign, which we launched in partnership with Royal College of Emergency Medicine, SCTS UK and Heart Research UK in 2018. #AortaEd #patientsafety

Excitement is building ahead of the 9th annual #AorticDissection Awareness Day UK #ADADUK24 hosted by The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh on 19-Sep & sponsored by Terumo Aortic, where we have FIVE surgeon/patient duos from around the world speaking. The first is Joe Bavaria, MD and his patient Allison Seed #AortaEd

#Arabic is the UK's fifth most-spoken language. It is also spoken by 422 million people around the world. So today we're making our life-saving #THINKAORTA poster available in #Arabic, courtesy of our THINK AORTA Egypt campaign team. فكر في الشريان الأورطي RCEMLearning SCTS UK

Today we'll be at the IADS in King's College London, where we'll be live tweeting highlights of the day from a patient perspective. Vascular Society SCTS UK UK-AS Vascular News Endovascular Today THINK AORTA Global #AortaEd

Prof. Bijan Modarai welcomes the capacity crowd to IADS

First-up, it's standing room only as Rachel Bell presents an update on the NHS England Acute #AorticDissection toolkit. Key message: "It is definitely safer to be an #AorticDissection patient in 2024 than it was in 2022". ❤️

“Don’t underestimate the power of talking and raising awareness,” says Rachel Bell, speaking on the Aortic Dissection Toolkit. Highlights progress since 2022 launch as well as areas for improvement, including reliable image transfer and data collection IADS #aortaed

Stephen Cheng from Hong Kong presents a comprehensive review of acute Type B #AorticDissection disease patterns in Asia. Onset of this disease in #China occurs 10 years earlier than in the West. IADS #AortaEd

Lively panel discussion about management of #AorticDissection patients. Panel agrees patients do better when cared for by #Aortic multidisciplinary teams in specialist #Aortic centres. IADS Vascular Society Vascular News #AortaEd

Risk of paraplegia during #Aortic repair is a significant concern for patients. Tim Resch from Copenhagen leads a discussion on this thorny issue. "Don't cover more #Aorta than you need". "Technique is more important than device design". IADS Endovascular Today

Cherrie Abraham from OHSU Vascular is presenting at IADS on management of #AorticDissection in #aortopathty patients. Says re-intervention rates are high for #TEVAR in #Marfan syndrome. TheMarfanFoundation Marfan Trust Sherene Shalhub MD MPH #AortaEd

Debate: "Frozen Elephant Trunk (FET) should be used more selectively in acute Type A #AorticDissection". Amit Modi of University Hospital Southampton 💙 & Aung Oo of Barts Aortic Surgery agree the answer is "No". "Current practice inadequately addresses the fate of the distal #Aorta". IADS UK-AS

Medical management or #TEVAR in chronic uncomplicated Type B #AorticDissection. Which is best? We don't know, so we have 3 global clinical trials: IMPROVE-AD (US); SUNDAY (Scandinavia) & EARNEST (UK). It will be interesting to see how they fare. IADS Firas F Mussa فراس ف موسى #AortaEd

And that's a wrap! Bijan Modarai closes an excellent first IADS in London and announces that we'll get to do it all again next year. 🙂 Save the date: Thursday 11th September 2025. Thanks for following and sharing our live-tweets from the event. #THINKAORTA