Guidance

Screening results: large abdominal aortic aneurysm

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

Applies to England

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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, Hindi, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian 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.

Published 17 March 2015

Last updated 2326 ~~June~~November 2025 + show all updates

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.

23 June 2025
Changed content type to guidance.
19 November 2024
Removed the PDF version of the leaflet as the document is not accessible.
1 October 2024
Added clarification that publication was previously published by Public Health England. Changed contact details to NHS England.
28 July 2022
Updating confidentiality section, replacing mention of Public Health England with NHS England.
20 October 2021
Addition of plain A4 PDF version for printing, to provide for people unable to access this information online.
9 November 2020
Updated translations in accessible HTML format.
2 April 2020
Updated leaflet.
27 March 2018
Updated prevalence data and reviewed leaflet.
12 July 2017
Removed of out of date easy read version of leaflet.
2 October 2015
Addition of easy read version of leaflet.
17 March 2015
First published.