Hospital Volume of Elective Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair as a Predictor of Mortality After Ruptured Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair. 2024

Xavier Faner Capó, and Marvin E García Reyes, and Álvaro Salinas Cánovas, and Lluís Sánchez Besalduch, and David Flota Ruiz, and Sergi Bellmunt Montoya, and
Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, Spain; Departament de Cirurgia, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Bellaterra, Spain.

OBJECTIVE Registry data suggest that centralising abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) surgery decreases the mortality rate after AAA repair. However, the impact of higher elective volumes on ruptured AAA (rAAA) repair associated mortality rates remains uncertain. This study aimed to examine associations between intact AAA (iAAA) repair volume and post-operative rAAA death. METHODS Using data from official national registries between 2015 - 2019, all iAAA and rAAA repairs were separately analysed across 10 public hospitals. The following were assessed: 30 day and 12 month mortality rate following open surgical repair (OSR) and endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR). Associations between the 5 year hospital iAAA repair volumes (organised into tertiles) and rAAA associated mortality rate were analysed, regardless of treatment modality. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves were generated to identify iAAA volume thresholds for decreasing the rAAA mortality rate. Subanalysis by treatment type was conducted. Threshold analysis was repeated with the Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) procedure to confirm the findings. RESULTS A total of 1 599 iAAAs (80.2% EVAR, 19.8% OSR) and 196 rAAAs (66.3% EVAR, 33.7% OSR) repairs were analysed. The median and interquartile range of the volume/hospital/year for all iAAA repairs were 39.2 (31.2, 47.4). The top volume iAAA tertile exhibited lower rAAA associated 30 day (odds ratio [OR] 0.374; p = .007) and 12 month (OR 0.264; p < .001) mortality rates. The ROC analysis revealed a threshold of 40 iAAA repairs/hospital/year (EVAR + OSR) for a reduced rAAA mortality rate. Middle volume hospitals for open iAAA repair had reduced 30 day (OR 0.267; p = .033) and 12 month (OR 0.223; p = .020) mortality rates, with a threshold of five OSR procedures/year. The MCMC procedure found similar thresholds. No significant association was found between elective EVAR volumes and ruptured EVAR mortality. CONCLUSIONS Higher iAAA repair volumes correlated with a lower rAAA mortality rate, particularly for OSR. The recommended iAAA repair threshold is 40 procedures/year and five procedures/year for OSR. These findings support high elective volumes for improving the rAAA mortality rate, especially for OSR.

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