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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Mar 29.
Published in final edited form as: J Vasc Surg. 2021 Sep 8;75(2):515–525. doi: 10.1016/j.jvs.2021.08.060

Table III.

Perioperative outcomes for female and male patients undergoing AAA repair stratified by intact and rupture repair

EVAR
Open repair
Female Male P value Female Male P value

Intact repair
 No. patients 7893 34,643 2225 6375
 Perioperative mortality 1.4 0.7 <.001 5.1 3.2 <.001
 Any major complication 6.3 3.2 <.001 24 20 <.001
 Mortality + complication 6.8 3.6 <.001 25 20 <.001
 LOS, d 2 (1–3) 1 (1–2) <.001 7 (6–9) 7 (5–9) <.001
 Cardiac complications 3.9 2.6 <.001 17 17 .93
 Renal complications 4.4 2.7 <.001 16 17 .1
 Respiratory complication 1.9 1.1 <.001 12 9.6 <.001
 Access-related complication 2.9 1.8 <.001
 Postoperative stroke 0.2 0.2 .27 1.0 0.8 .33
 Intestinal ischemia 0.7 0.3 <.001 4.3 3.3 .044
 Discharged to SNF 7.8 3.6 <.001 26 15 <.001
Rupture repair
 No. patients 562 2097 416 1436
 Perioperative mortality 26 20 <.001 42 31 <.001
 Any major complication 34 35 .80 54 60 .03
 Mortality + complication 46 43 .17 73 69 .11
 LOS, d 5 (3–10) 5 (3–10) .73 8.5 (2–17) 10 (5–19) .002
 Cardiac complications 20 21 .47 34 37 .19
 Renal complications 25 26 .81 41 41 .84
 Respiratory complication 20 20 .86 33 39 .036
 Access-related complication 4.9 4.0 .36
 Postoperative stroke 2.8 2.2 .45 3.3 3.6 .76
 Intestinal ischemia 6.4 6.2 .91 18 18 .96
 Discharged to SNF 35 21 <.001 32 29 .22

AAA, Abdominal aortic aneurysm; EVAR, endovascular aneurysm repair; LOS, length of stay; SNF, skilled nursing facility.

Categorical variables are presented as number (%) and continuous variables as median (interquartile range).