EVAR Trends over the Past Decade and Their Impact on Aneurysm Mortality: National Health Insurance Data Analysis
Abstract
1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
3. Results
3.1. Annual Numbers of rAAAs and iAAAs
3.2. Gender Distribution
3.3. Age Distribution
3.4. Annual Trends in EVAR Versus OAR
3.5. Mortality Rate
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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KCD codes 1 | Diseases |
I713 | Abdominal aortic aneurysm, ruptured |
I714 | Abdominal aortic aneurysm, without mention of rupture |
EDI codes 2 | Open repair |
O0223 | Abdominal aorta, suprarenal |
O0224 | Abdominal aorta, infrarenal |
O2034 | Abdominal aorta involving iliac artery |
Endovascular repair | |
M6612 | Placement of stent graft, abdominal aorta involving iliac artery |
Year | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
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Total number | 525 | 513 | 521 | 523 | 529 | 535 | 616 | 565 | 753 | 865 | 822 | 851 | 845 |
Suprarenal | 454 | 422 | 454 | 437 | 442 | 461 | 521 | 456 | 631 | 702 | 697 | 713 | 721 |
Infrarenal | 71 | 91 | 67 | 86 | 87 | 74 | 95 | 109 | 122 | 163 | 125 | 138 | 124 |
Suprarenal % | 13.5 | 17.7 | 12.9 | 16.4 | 16.4 | 13.8 | 15.4 | 19.3 | 16.2 | 18.8 | 15.2 | 16.2 | 14.7 |
Male | 426 | 423 | 429 | 421 | 437 | 421 | 492 | 466 | 627 | 686 | 668 | 703 | 728 |
Female | 99 | 90 | 92 | 102 | 92 | 114 | 124 | 99 | 126 | 179 | 154 | 148 | 117 |
Female % | 18.9 | 17.5 | 17.7 | 19.5 | 17.4 | 21.3 | 20.1 | 17.5 | 16.7 | 20.7 | 18.7 | 17.4 | 13.8 |
Non-octogenarians | 477 | 473 | 468 | 470 | 474 | 463 | 532 | 488 | 648 | 725 | 677 | 704 | 699 |
Octogenarians | 48 | 40 | 53 | 53 | 55 | 72 | 84 | 77 | 105 | 140 | 145 | 147 | 146 |
Octogenarians % | 9.1 | 7.8 | 10.2 | 10.1 | 10.4 | 13.5 | 13.6 | 13.6 | 13.9 | 16.2 | 17.6 | 17.3 | 17.3 |
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Cho, S.; Joh, J.H. EVAR Trends over the Past Decade and Their Impact on Aneurysm Mortality: National Health Insurance Data Analysis. J. Clin. Med. 2025, 14, 5277. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm14155277
Cho S, Joh JH. EVAR Trends over the Past Decade and Their Impact on Aneurysm Mortality: National Health Insurance Data Analysis. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 2025; 14(15):5277. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm14155277
Chicago/Turabian StyleCho, Sungsin, and Jin Hyun Joh. 2025. "EVAR Trends over the Past Decade and Their Impact on Aneurysm Mortality: National Health Insurance Data Analysis" Journal of Clinical Medicine 14, no. 15: 5277. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm14155277
APA StyleCho, S., & Joh, J. H. (2025). EVAR Trends over the Past Decade and Their Impact on Aneurysm Mortality: National Health Insurance Data Analysis. Journal of Clinical Medicine, 14(15), 5277. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm14155277