Notification of Shareholding

Aortech International PLC
22 August 2003



Aortech International plc ('the Company') announces that it received
notification yesterday that Erudite Limited, a company ultimately 100% owned by
Peter Gyllenhammar, has sold 100,000 ordinary shares in the Company and as a
result now has a holding of 2,989,177 ordinary shares representing approximately
7.85% of the issued ordinary share capital of the Company.








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