RNS Number:4585N
Aortech International PLC
11 July 2003



AorTech International plc ("the Company") announces that it received
notification today that Erudite Ltd, a UK company owned by Peter Gyllenhammar,
sold the following number of Ordinary Shares in the Company:


Date                               Number of Ordinary Shares

7 July 2003                        50,000
8 July 2003                        100,000
10 July 2003                       300,000
Total                              450,000

This reduces his beneficial interest to 3,139,177 Ordinary Shares representing
approximately 8.24% of the issued Ordinary Share Capital.


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