While EVAR has changed the magnitude of the initial operation, there are specific points that patients and their families need to know. Prof Mussa explains how EVAR is different than open repair and what to expect after being discharged from the hospital.
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The endovascular repair brings a different set of things to look for, so you clearly have a much smaller magnitude of an operation, at least in the immediate postoperative period. You can return home within a day or two traditionally. This will, you know, you may feel a little groggy or still, but mostly you would feel back to normal within a week period in terms of healed incision and nothing visible to the outside except the two sticks where the graft went up or two incisions, and you would have a faster return to physical activity level that you had prior to surgery. Over the long term, you would just visit your provider probably more often to get regular CT scans to evaluate how the stent is doing in terms of the aneurysm repair. And that is to be discussed with you, obviously, prior to surgery so you have an understanding of what's going to happen and the intervals of how those checkups happen.
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