A study led by UCSF neurologist S. Claiborne Johnston, MD, has shown that coiling of ruptured brain aneurysms is very effective during long-term follow-up, similar to outcomes with surgical clipping.

For endovascular treatment of ruptured intracranial aneurysm, coiling yields a better clinical outcome than clipping, with the benefit greatest in patients with a good preoperative grade, according to ...

Neurosurgical clipping and endovascular coiling are methods used to treat patients who have ruptured intracranial aneurysms; however, the safety and efficacy of these treatments relative to one ...

A 42-year-old Russian who recently came to Manipal hospitals, Dona Paula, complaining of severe headache, vomiting and loss of consciousness, was detected with brain aneurysm A team of doctors at ...

HOUSTON -- Treating medium-sized intracranial aneurysms with second-generation hydrogel coils diminished adverse outcomes compared with standard platinum coils, researchers reported here. Physicians ...

Haemorrhagic brain stroke is a major cause of long-term disability and even death. The life-threatening medical condition leads to irreversible damage to the brain cells. However, with the emergence ...

PATIENTS IN Munster can now be treated for potentially life-threatening cerebral aneurysms without having to travel to Dublin. This is because surgeons at Cork University Hospital (CUP) have begun ...

It can be associated with high blood pressure and commonly develops in middle age, but the reasons for this are not clear. Aneurysms are not always life-threatening, but if one bursts it can cause a ...

A microcatheter was advanced over a microwire through the right VA into the left VA (Figure 4). Digital subtraction angiography (DSA) showed collaterals from the cervical left VA into the LSA without ...