Aortic aneurysm care at Mayo Clinic

Your Mayo Clinic care team

Mayo Clinic doctors trained in blood vessel conditions (vascular specialists), blood vessel surgery (vascular and endovascular surgeons), heart and blood vessel surgery (cardiovascular surgeons), and heart and blood vessel conditions (cardiologists) and other health care providers work together as a multidisciplinary team to evaluate and treat aortic aneurysms.

Convenient care

Each Mayo Clinic location offers a vascular center staffed by doctors and other health care providers trained in vascular diseases. Vascular centers include the Gonda Vascular Center at Mayo Clinic's campus in Minnesota and vascular centers at Mayo Clinic's campuses in Arizona and Florida.

Treatment expertise

Doctors and surgeons at Mayo Clinic have extensive experience performing endovascular or open repair of aneurysms. These include abdominal aortic aneurysms, thoracic aortic aneurysms and thoracoabdominal aneurysms.

Expertise and rankings

Mayo Clinic health care providers have experience evaluating and treating people with aortic aneurysms. Mayo Clinic specialists treat more than 7,300 people with aortic aneurysms each year, including people with abdominal aortic aneurysms and thoracic aortic aneurysms.

National expertise

Mayo Clinic campuses are nationally recognized for expertise in cardiology and cardiovascular surgery:

  • Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, Mayo Clinic in Phoenix/Scottsdale, Arizona, and Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, are ranked among the Best Hospitals for heart and heart surgery by U.S. News & World Report.
  • Mayo Clinic Children's Center in Rochester is ranked the No. 1 hospital in Minnesota, and the five-state region of Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin, according to U.S. News & World Report's 2024–2025 "Best Children's Hospitals" rankings.

With Mayo Clinic's emphasis on collaborative care, specialists at each of the campuses — Minnesota, Arizona and Florida — interact very closely with colleagues at the other campuses and the Mayo Clinic Health System.

Learn more about Mayo Clinic's cardiovascular surgery and cardiovascular medicine departments' expertise and rankings.

Locations, travel and lodging

Mayo Clinic has major campuses in Phoenix and Scottsdale, Arizona; Jacksonville, Florida; and Rochester, Minnesota. The Mayo Clinic Health System has dozens of locations in several states.

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Costs and insurance

Mayo Clinic works with hundreds of insurance companies and is an in-network provider for millions of people.

In most cases, Mayo Clinic doesn't require a physician referral. Some insurers require referrals or may have additional requirements for certain medical care. All appointments are prioritized on the basis of medical need.

Learn more about appointments at Mayo Clinic.

Please contact your insurance company to verify medical coverage and to obtain any needed authorization prior to your visit. Often, your insurer's customer service number is printed on the back of your insurance card.

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April 21, 2023

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