Comparing and Correlating Outcomes between Open and Percutaneous Access in Endovascular Aneurysm Repair in Aortic Aneurysms Using a Retrospective Cohort Study Design

Table 3

Analysis of mortality with EVAR vs Open-Cutdown method: Northside Hospital Study with Open Versus Endovascular Repair (OVER) Veterans Affairs Cooperative Study Group.

Variable in common	% of veterans study	Number of people % represents	% Northside hospital	# of people % represents	Total number of people in group vets	Total number of people in group NS
Mortality endovascular repair	0.5	2.2	1.2	0.984	444	82
Open repair	3	13.11	3.1	0.99	437	32
Total # of pts in endovascular groups
Total endovascular repair
Meta-analysis mortality in endovascular repair
% mortality in endovascular repair meta-analysis	0.6%