Guidance

Monitoring your small abdominal aortic aneurysm

Information for men who have a small aneurysm detected through screening.

From:

NHS England

Published:

17 March 2015

Last updated:

5 February 2026

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5 February 2026
Adding translations for: Arabic, Bengali, Gujarati, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Urdu.
26 November 2025
New version of small 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 screening helpdesk information and updated with NHS England's Customer Contact Centre details.
28 July 2022
Updating confidentiality section, replacing mention of Public Health England with NHS England.
1 April 2022
Clarification of updated screening protocol for small aneurysms that grow rapidly by more than 1cm in a 12-month period (updated in all translated versions as well).
21 October 2021
Addition of plain A4 PDF version for printing, to provide for people unable to access this information online.
4 November 2020
Updated translations in accessible HTML format.
2 April 2020
Updated leaflet.
27 March 2018
Updated prevalence data and leaflet reviewed.
12 July 2017
Removed out of date easy read version of small AAA result leaflet.
2 October 2015
Addition of easy read version of leaflet.
17 March 2015
First published.

Applies to England

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This leaflet provides information and guidance for men who have a small aneurysm detected through NHS abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) screening.

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.

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