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Now Available: ACC/AHA Pocket Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Patients with Thoracic Aortic Disease

The TAD Guidelines*– which were the first ever published on diagnosing and managing thoracic aortic disease – can help prevent many of the 10,000+ annual fatalities caused by aortic dissection.

The Thoracic Aortic Disease (TAD) Coalition is now making the pocket guidelines (a 64 page booklet) available to physicians and other healthcare providers free of charge.

Some of the risk factors associated with aortic dissection can be found in people of any age, as evidenced by the high-profile people who have died in this way: actor John Ritter, award-winning playwright of Broadway's RENT, Jonathan Larson, U.S. Olympic volleyball player Flo Hyman and, more recently, U.S. Envoy Richard Holbrooke.

 ACC/AHA Pocket Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Patients with Thoracic Aortic Disease
Critical Issues

The critical issues in diagnosis and treating aortic disease, as outlined in the guidelines, include:

  • The variation and severity of symptoms
  • The use of specific imaging techniques
  • The urgency of treating high-risk patients, even if they appear stable
  • The recognition of genetic predisposition to aortic disease
    More...

The free offer is made possible by an unrestricted educational grant from W. L. Gore & Associates.
TAD Coalition

TAD Coalition • 22 Manhasset Avenue, Port Washington, NY 11050 • www.TADCoalition.org

*Hiratzka LF, Bakris GL, Beckman JA, Bersin RM, Carr VF, Casey DE Jr, Eagle KA, Hermann LK, Isselbacher EM, Kazerooni EA, Kouchoukos NT, Lytle BW, Milewicz DM, Reich DL, Sen S, Shinn JA, Svensson LG, Williams DM. 2010 ACCF/AHA/AATS/ACR/ASA/SCA/SCAI/SIR/STS/SVM Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of patients with thoracic aortic disease: a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines, American Association for Thoracic Surgery, American College of Radiology, American Stroke Association, Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists, Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, Society of Interventional Radiology, Society of Thoracic Surgeons, and Society for Vascular Medicine. Circulation 2010: published online before print March 16, 2010, 10.1161/CIR.0b013e3181d4739e

J. Am. Coll. Cardiol. 2010;55;e27-e129; originally published online Mar 16, 2010; doi:10.1016/j.jacc.2010.02.015