In-hospital stroke is rare after elective endovascular aortic aneurysm repair, but it is more common after complex EVAR and thoracic endovascular aortic repair, researchers reported at the Society for Vascular Surgery Vascular Annual Meeting.

Nicholas J. Swerdlow, MD, vascular research fellow at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and colleagues performed a retrospective cohort study of 38,722 patients who had infrarenal EVAR, 1,371 patients who had complex EVAR (including fenestrated EVAR and chimney EVAR) and 3,073 patients who had TEVAR between 2011 and 2018 and were included in the Vascular Quality Initiative database.