Somewhere in the world, right now, an aorta is tearing. One in three dissections is misdiagnosed at first contact. For Type A dissection, mortality without surgery is 1–2% per hour. Time is not a background variable — it is part of the disease.
This symposium exists because the next advance in aortic care will not be one device, one scan, or one guideline. It will be the system — and building it demands every specialty, every country, and every person in the chain of care, in the same room.
Nine sessions from opening address to keynote — urgency, frontline reality, surgical peak, a signature global moment spanning 12 countries, and a global call to action.
View programme →A keynote from Prof. John A. Elefteriades, a global faculty of leading surgeons and physicians, and the patient voices at the centre of it all.
Meet the faculty →Open to every discipline, every country. The Royal College of Surgeons of England has awarded up to 8 CPD points. No cost, no capacity limit.
Register now →The surgeons, physicians and patient advocates gathering around one vessel on 9 September.
Meet the faculty →
