This study states that The stroke rate after endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR), particularly complex EVAR such as fenestrated EVAR (FEVAR) and chimney EVAR (chEVAR), is not well defined. Whereas stroke is a well-established risk of thoracic endovascular aortic repair (TEVAR), the impact of procedural characteristics on stroke remains unclear. Therefore, we characterized the risk of stroke after endovascular aortic interventions in the Vascular Quality Initiative database and identified procedural characteristics associated with stroke. We performed a retrospective cohort study of patients undergoing infrarenal EVAR, complex EVAR, and TEVAR within the Vascular Quality Initiative between 2011 and 2019. Complex EVAR included FEVAR (with either a Food and Drug Administration-approved custom-manufactured device or physician-modified endovascular graft) and chEVAR. We excluded emergent procedures. The primary outcome was in-hospital stroke. We used multivariable logistic regression to identify procedural characteristics associated with stroke. We identified 41,540 EVARs, 1371 complex EVARs, and 4600 TEVARs. The in-hospital stroke rate was 0.1% after EVAR, 0.9% after complex EVAR, and 2.9% after TEVAR.
Reference link- https://www.jvascsurg.org/article/S0741-5214(20)30287-1/fulltext
