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INTERVENTIONAL

Self-Expandable Stent-Assisted Coiling of Wide-Necked Intracranial Aneurysms: A Single-Center Experience

Sergin Akpeka,c, Anil Aratb, Hesham Morsic, Richard P. Klucznickc, Charles M. Strotherc and Michel E. Mawad

a Department of Radiology, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey
b Department of Radiology, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
c Baylor College of Medicine, Methodist Hospital Houston, TX

Address correspondence to Sergin Akpek, MD, Department of Radiology, Gazi University, Besevler, 06510, Ankara, Turkey

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Endovascular treatment of wide-necked aneurysms remains a therapeutic challenge. We conducted this study to evaluate the angiographic results and clinical outcome of patients treated with stent-assisted coiling by using a recently available self-expandable intracranial stent.

METHODS: A retrospective review of all patients treated with self-expandable stent-assisted coiling between September 2002 and December 2003 was done. Treatment was attempted in 32 patients with 35 aneurysms. Four of the aneurysms were ruptured. All had either a dome-to-neck ratio less than 2 and/or a neck diameter of 5 mm or larger. Following stent placement, coiling was attempted in 33 of 34 aneurysms. The technical success of the procedure, procedure related complications, and the angiographic results were documented.

RESULTS: In 34 of 35 aneurysms, stent deployment across the neck of the aneurysm was successful. Coiling was performed successfully in 30 of 33 aneurysms. In 20 aneurysms, immediate posttreatment angiography showed either total (17%) or satisfactory (50%) occlusion. Procedure-related mortality occurred in one patient (3.1%). Adverse events occurred in eight patients (25%); in three of them permanent neurologic deficit resulted (9.3%). In six patients, thrombus formation occurred within the stented segments during the procedure and reopro infusion was used. Follow-up angiography was available in 12 (40%) of 30 treated aneurysms.

CONCLUSION: In our practice use of the self-expandable stent seemed to facilitate endovascular treatment of wide-necked intracranial aneurysms. Difficulty of deployment and stent thrombogenicity are the main drawbacks of the system.




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