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Table 3 Pooled outcomes by surgical options

From: Analysis of antibiotic strategies to prevent vascular graft or endograft infection after surgical treatment for infective native aortic aneurysms: a systematic review

Pooled outcome

Open surgical repair

Endovascular intervention

P value

In-hospital mortality

13.2% (82/622)

7.2% (40/557)

0.001

Aortic VGEI

5.4% (29/540)

13.3% (69/517)

< 0.001

  1. Aortic VGEI: aortic vascular graft or endograft infection