Samuel Jessula, Claudia Cote, Mitri Khoury, Charles DeCarlo, Tiffany R Bellomo, Alexa Grant-Gorveatt, Christine Herman, Matthew Smith, Anahita Dua, Matthew Eagleton, Patrick Casey, Nikolaos Zacharias
BACKGROUND: Local anesthesia (LA) is sparsely used in endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) despite short-term benefit, likely secondary to concerns over patient movement preventing accurate endograft deployment. The objective of this study is to examine the association between anesthesia type and endoleak, sac regression, reintervention, and mortality. METHODS: The Vascular Quality Initiative database was queried for all EVAR cases from 2014 to 2022. Patients were included if they underwent percutaneous elective EVAR with anatomical criteria within instructions for use of commercially approved endografts...
January 30, 2024: Annals of Vascular Surgery