Salvatore Scali
Professor of Surgery and Program Director for the Vascular Surgery Fellowship at the University of Florida, specializing in aortic disease and advanced endovascular therapies.
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Aug 2, 2026
Anders WanhainenGUEST
So obviously we need to always re-evaluate every 10th or 15th years our practice.
Salvatore ScaliGUEST
I get conflicted with this one because obviously the value proposition was that you were supposed to prevent the patient from dying from their aneurysm.
Salvatore ScaliGUEST
And certainly the early safety signal of EVAR, even in the early era of endographs with a 0.3 to 0.6 30-day mortality rate, that is exactly what it is nowadays.
Salvatore ScaliGUEST
We see an elective EVAR mortality rate on average at a population level of usually less than 1%.
18 MINS LATER
David StoneGUEST
So I think that those lower rupture potentials and the repeated documentation of safe surveillance, particularly for smaller aneurysms, should be reassuring for everyone.