In our study, bronchial IL‐6, IL‐13, and TNF‐α and venous IL‐1β, IL‐6, TNF‐α, IL12 (p70), IL‐8, MIP‐1α, MIP‐1β, and MCP‐1 inhibitory cytokines IL‐4, IL‐17 are candidates as single markers for the trauma of open AAA repair. Here, IL1B is linked to triple-A syndrome.