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We conducted a retrospective dual-center cohort study of consecutive EVAR patients from Fuxing and Xuanwu Hospitals. The endpoint was new-onset postoperative buttock claudication. Missingness was quantified for each predictor and handled using complete-case analysis or model-based single imputation according to the extent of missingness. Data were split into training and held-out test sets at a 70:30 ratio with outcome stratification. Predictor screening, preprocessing, and hyperparameter tuning were performed within the training\/resampling framework to minimize data leakage. Ten algorithms were tuned using stratified 10-fold cross-validation, and test set performance was assessed using discrimination, threshold-based metrics, calibration plots, calibration intercept\/slope, Brier score, and decision-curve analysis. SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP) provided model-agnostic explanations. A web calculator was deployed. Among 272 patients, 71 (26.1%) developed claudication. Independent risk factors included aneurysm with iliac involvement (adjusted OR 4.04), male sex (3.26), unilateral (3.86) and bilateral internal iliac artery embolization (8.61), and hyperlipidemia (5.66); &gt;2 distal internal iliac branches was protective (0.15). On the test set, the neural network achieved the highest AUROC (test ROC), with the highest sensitivity (0.810) and top F1 (0.557) at balanced specificity (0.617); CatBoost maximized accuracy (0.790) and specificity (0.900). Calibration was acceptable, and DCA showed positive net benefit across clinically plausible thresholds. SHAP confirmed physiologic directions and enabled case-level interpretation. An explainable machine learning framework accurately stratifies risk of buttock claudication after EVAR, highlighting the roles of internal iliac embolization, iliac involvement, and distal branch anatomy. 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