Influence of Severe Infrarenal Aortic Neck Angulation on Complications at the Proximal Neck following Endovascular AAA Repair: A EUROSTAR Study

Purpose: To examine the influence of severe infrarenal neck angulation (SNA) on complications after endovascular repair of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA). Methods: From October 1996 to January 2006, 5183 patients who underwent endovascular aneurysm repair using a Talent, Zenith, or Excluder stent-graft were enrolled into the EUROSTAR registry. Incidence of proximal type I endoleak, stent-graft migration, proximal neck dilatation, aneurysm rupture, secondary interventions, and all-cause and aneurysm-related mortality were compared between patients with and without severe infrarenal neck angulation (>60° angle between the infrarenal aortic neck and the longitudinal axis of the aneurysm). Results: In the short term (before discharge), proximal type I endoleak (OR 2.32, 95% Cl 1.60 to 3.37, p<0.0001) and stent-graft migration (OR 2.17, 95% Cl 1.20 to 3.91, p=0.0105) were observed more frequently in patients with SNA. Over the long term, higher incidences of proximal neck dilatation ≥4 mm (HR 1.26, 95% Cl 1.11 to 1.43, p=0.0004), proximal type I endoleak (HR 1.80, 95% Cl 1.25 to 2.58, p=0.0016), and need for secondary interventions (HR 1.29, 95% Cl 1.00 to 1.67, p=0.0488) were seen in patients with SNA. All-cause mortality, aneurysm-related mortality, and rupture of the aneurysm were similar in patients with and without severe neck angulation. In the subgroup of patients with an Excluder endograft, proximal endoleak at the completion angiogram (OR 4.49, 95% Cl 1.31 to 15.32, p=0.0166) and long-term proximal neck dilatation (HR 1.67, 95% Cl 1.20 to 2.33, p=0.0026) were more frequently observed in patients with SNA. In the Zenith subgroup, proximal endoleak at the completion angiogram (OR 2.62, 95% Cl 1.49 to 4.63, p=0.0009) and proximal stent-graft migration before discharge (OR 2.34, 95% Cl 1.06 to 5.19, p=0.0353) were more common in patients with SNA. In the Talent subgroup, long-term proximal endoleak (HR 2.09, 95% Cl 1.27 to 3.44, p=0.0036), proximal neck dilatation (HR 1.29, 95% Cl 1.05 to 1.60, p=0.0168), and secondary interventions (HR 1.54, 95% Cl 1.05 to 2.24, p=0.0259) were more frequently observed in patients with SNA. Conclusion: Severe infrarenal aortic neck angulation was clearly associated with proximal type I endoleak, while the relationship with stent-graft migration was not clear. Excluder, Zenith, and Talent stent-grafts perform well in patients with severe neck angulation, with only a few differences among devices.

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