Director/PDMR Shareholding

Aortech International PLC
27 April 2007

                   AorTech International plc ('the Company')

                             Director Shareholding


The Company was notified on 26 April 2007 that, on that day, Eddie McDaid and
Gordon Wright, both non-executive directors of the Company, each transferred
4,000 ordinary shares of 250p each in the Company ('Ordinary Shares') to each of
Dr Peter Diujst, John McKenna and Bruno Lowinger, all former directors of the
Company. These transfers were done for nil consideration.


Following this transfer, Eddie McDaid and Gordon Wright had total interests in
the Company's issued share capital as shown below:

+---------------------+----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
|Non-executive        |       Total number of|  Resultant beneficial| % holding of Ordinary|
|director             |       Ordinary Shares|              interest|                Shares|
|                     |               granted|                      |                      |
|                     |                      |                      |                      |
|                     |                      |                      |                      |
+---------------------+----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
|Eddie McDaid         |                12,000|               363,383|                 9.54%|
|                     |                      |                      |                      |
|                     |                      |                      |                      |
+---------------------+----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
|Gordon Wright        |                12,000|               335,107|                 8.79%|
|                     |                      |                      |                      |
|                     |                      |                      |                      |
+---------------------+----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+


27 April 2007



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