Risk factors of long-term incisional hernia after open surgery for abdominal aortic aneurism: A bicentric study

Abstract

Conventional surgery still retains a dominating place beside endovascular surgery in the care of abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA), with a lower rate of reinterventions in the long-term. Incisional hernias are the major complication of open surgery in the long-term. The occurrence of this late complication could be due to the choice of the incision, median or transverse. The principal aim of this work was to characterize the long-term risk factors of hernia after open surgery for AAA, in particular by comparing the two types of laparotomy.