Thursday, July 3, 2014

Endovascular coil embolization of unruptured posterior communicating artery aneurysm

Endovascular coil embolization of unruptured posterior communicating artery aneurysm
Journal of Neurosurgery: Neurosurgical FOCUS: Table of Contents

Neurosurgical Focus, Volume 37, Issue V1Supplement, Page 1-1, July 2014.
The patient is a 60-year-old woman who presented to her primary care physician with new onset of headache. She was neurologically intact without cranial nerve deficit. An outpatient CT angiogram (CTA) revealed no subarachnoid hemorrhage, but showed a right-sided posterior communicating artery aneurysm measuring 11 mm by 10 mm. Digitally subtracted cerebral angiography confirmed these measurements and showed that the aneurysm was amenable to endovascular coil embolization. The patient underwent aneurysm coiling without complication and was discharged to home on postoperative Day 1. The video can be found here: http://youtu.be/MjOc3Zpv2K8.

Original Article: http://thejns.org/doi/abs/10.3171/2014.V2.FOCUS14179?ai=rw&mi=3ba5z2&af=R

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