Guidance

Screening results: large abdominal aortic aneurysm

Information on managing and monitoring a large abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) identified through screening.

• From: NHS England
• Published: 17 March 2015
• Last updated: 5 February 2026
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  1. 5 February 2026

     Adding translations for: Arabic, Bengali, Gujarati, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Urdu.

  2. 26 November 2025

     New version of large AAA results leaflet. Multiple changes (none clinical), largely at a textual level designed to increase readability, plus some restructuring to improve flow of information.

  3. 23 June 2025

     Changed content type to guidance.

  4. 19 November 2024

     Removed the PDF version of the leaflet as the document is not accessible.

  5. 1 October 2024

     Added clarification that publication was previously published by Public Health England. Changed contact details to NHS England.

  6. 28 July 2022

     Updating confidentiality section, replacing mention of Public Health England with NHS England.

  7. 20 October 2021

     Addition of plain A4 PDF version for printing, to provide for people unable to access this information online.

  8. 9 November 2020

     Updated translations in accessible HTML format.

  9. 2 April 2020

     Updated leaflet.

  10. 27 March 2018

      Updated prevalence data and reviewed leaflet.

  11. 12 July 2017

      Removed of out of date easy read version of leaflet.

  12. 2 October 2015

      Addition of easy read version of leaflet.

  13. 17 March 2015

      First published.

Applies to England

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Managing your large abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA)

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Information and guidance for men with a large abdominal aortic aneurysm detected through the NHS abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) screening programme.

This information is available in HTML format to print out for people who cannot access digital information.

This information is also available in 10 other languages: Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Gujarati, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Spanish, and Urdu.

This publication was previously published by Public Health England, which closed on 30 September 2021.

To request another format, you can phone 0300 311 22 33 or email england.contactus@nhs.net.