Endovascular versus open surgery repair of intact abdominal aortic aneurysm: systematic review of randomized controlled trials and critical appraisal of meta-analyses
Frank Peinemann, Mohammed Bilal Olcay
TL;DR
This study compares endovascular and open surgery for abdominal aortic aneurysms, finding no survival benefit from endovascular repair but fewer reinterventions with open surgery.
Contribution
The study provides updated evidence comparing two surgical approaches for intact abdominal aortic aneurysms using the latest randomized trials.
Findings
Endovascular repair (EVAR) showed no significant survival advantage over open surgery (OSR).
Open surgery was associated with a lower risk of reintervention compared to EVAR.
Abstract
A few randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have investigated endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) and open surgical repair (OSR) in patients with intact aortic abdominal aneurysm (AAA). We aimed to evaluate the efficacy of EVAR vs OSR in patients with intact AAA. We included RCTs and searched MEDLINE and the Cochrane Library on 28 December 2024 without limits. The beneficial primary outcome was overall survival, and the adverse primary outcome was reintervention. In both cases, the outcome measure was the hazard ratio (HR). Two people independently selected studies and extracted data. Management of missing data included deducing time-to-event data from published survival curves and contacting study authors. We retrieved 723 references from electronic databases and additional sources and included four RCTs. The pooled HR on overall survival favors neither EVAR nor OSR (HR = 1.02 [95% CI…
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Taxonomy
TopicsAortic aneurysm repair treatments · Aortic Disease and Treatment Approaches · Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes