The EU web-based database for aortic aneurysm is on line since few days.

This database is divided into four clinical sub databases: cases of large AAA (for phenotype of AAA rupture), small screen-detected AAA followed (for phenotype of AAA growth), AAA with endleak after endographting (phenotype of continuing aneurysm development) and patients with familial TAA or AAA (phenotype of genetic causation). The database of screen-detected AAA will be subclassified concerning cases diagnosed by population-based screening or high risk screening.

The objectives are: • to standardize the european methodologies for contribution to the clinical database and to establish standardized sample bank of plasma, DNA, cells, and tissue, associated with the database, • to give support to clinical investigations in different aspects of aneurismal pathology including biomarkers in the follow-up of aneurysm progression and treatment, correlation to function imaging, and therapeutic trials, • to exchange data and biomaterials between the FAD partners, • to allow progress of the other FAD work package.