Outpatient endovascular aortic aneurysm repair: experience in 100 consecutive patients.

Objectives: To present the safety, feasibility, costs, and patient satisfaction of outpatient endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR).

Background: Our experience in more than 1000 patients indicated that in technically uncomplicated EVAR procedures, the only need for hospitalization was for access vessel complications (bleeding or occlusion) requiring secondary procedures. These complications could always be identified within the first 3 hours after EVAR.