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Angiographic and Clinical Outcomes in 200 Consecutive Patients with Cerebral Aneurysm Treated with Hydrogel-Coated Coils

T. Gunnarsson, F.C. Tong, P. Klurfan, C.M. Cawley and J.E. Dion
American Journal of Neuroradiology October 2009, 30 (9) 1657-1664; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3174/ajnr.A1691
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Denser coil packing in intracranial aneurysms is believed to result in lower recanalization rates. Hydrogel-coated expandable coils (HydroCoil) improve volumetric packing of aneurysms in animal models and clinical studies, but data from large clinical series are limited. The objective of this retrospective analysis was to analyze immediate and follow-up angiographic results as well as complications in a large consecutive series of patients treated with HydroCoils at a single institution.

MATERIALS AND METHODS: Retrospective analysis was performed of periprocedural complications, immediate and follow-up angiograms, and retreatments of the first 200 consecutive intracranial aneurysms treated at Emory University Hospital.

RESULTS: One hundred eighty-seven patients with 200 intracranial aneurysms were treated with HydroCoils during a 3-year period. Immediate angiograms showed complete aneurysmal obliteration in 58.4% of small aneurysms and 42.7% of large aneurysms. Periprocedural complications included early rebleeding and thromboembolic events resulting in permanent neurologic morbidity and mortality in 6% of cases. Follow-up angiography during an average of 16.3 months demonstrated recanalization in 17.7% of small aneurysms and 28.6% of large aneurysms, requiring retreatment in 6.3% and 19.0% of cases, respectively. During the same time period, there was delayed angiographic improvement in aneurysm obliteration in 26.6% of small aneurysms and 26.2% of large aneurysms.

CONCLUSIONS: First-generation HydroCoil treatment of intracranial aneurysms has a favorable rate of recanalization compared with most large series of pure platinum coils with similar complication rates.

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T. Gunnarsson, F.C. Tong, P. Klurfan, C.M. Cawley, J.E. Dion
American Journal of Neuroradiology Oct 2009, 30 (9) 1657-1664; DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A1691

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T. Gunnarsson, F.C. Tong, P. Klurfan, C.M. Cawley, J.E. Dion
American Journal of Neuroradiology Oct 2009, 30 (9) 1657-1664; DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A1691
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