Table 3.

Serious adverse events

Complication	Treatment	Study group
With relation to study intervention (n = 5)
Fascial dehiscence with bowel incarceration (n = 1)	Relaparotomy, bowel resection	II
Symptomatic incisional hernia (n = 2)	Relaparotomy, mesh implantation	III, III
Infected seroma* (n = 2)	Surgical revision, irrigation, mesh removal (n = 1), antibiosis	II, II
Without relation to study intervention
Abdominal
Bleeding from aortic anastomosis (n = 1)	Relaparotomy, suture
Partial occlusion of aorto-iliac graft (n = 1)	Relaparotomy, repeat aorto-bi-iliac reconstruction
Bride ileus (n = 1)	Relaparotomy, adhesiolysis
Rectosigmoid ischemia (n = 1)	Relaparotomy, bowel resection
Bowel paralysis (n = 1)	Pharmaceutical
Malpositioned urethral catheter with urethral injury (n = 1)	Cystoscopy, bladder irrigation via transurethral catheter
Enteritis (n = 2)	Saline hydration, pharmaceutical
Colitis (n = 1)	Antibiosis
Pulmonary (n = 3)
Pneumonia (n = 2)	Antibiosis
Peripheral pulmonary artery embolism due to deep vein thrombosis (n = 1)	Anticoagulation
Renal (n = 3)
Worsening of pre-existing kidney dysfunction** (n = 3)	Saline hydration, pharmaceutical
Cardiologic (n = 4)
Myocardial infarction (n = 2)	Pharmaceutical
Cardiac arrest (n = 1)	CPR, intensive care management
3rd degree AV block (n = 1)	Pacemaker implantation
Neurologic (n = 1)
Postoperative delirium (n = 1)	Pharmaceutical
Others (n = 2)
Catheter infection (n = 1)	Antibiosis
Skin eczema (n = 1)	Pharmaceutical
Disease of femoro-popliteal arteries (n = 3)
Stage III POD (n = 1)	Surgical revascularization
Embolizing popliteal aneurysm (n = 1)	Femoro-popliteal bypass, secondary thigh amputation
Femoro-popliteal graft infection (n = 1)	Antibiosis

*Required mesh removal in one case

**Without necessity of dialysis

CPR cardiopulmonary resuscitation, POD peripheral occlusive disease