PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Graves, V B
AU  - Strother, C M
AU  - Rappe, A H
TI  - Treatment of experimental canine carotid aneurysms with platinum coils.
DP  - 1993 Jul 01
TA  - American Journal of Neuroradiology
PG  - 787--793
VI  - 14
IP  - 4
4099  - http://www.ajnr.org/content/14/4/787.short
4100  - http://www.ajnr.org/content/14/4/787.full
SO  - Am. J. Neuroradiol.1993 Jul 01; 14
AB  - PURPOSE To evaluate and compare the deliverability, positioning, stability, and effectiveness of aneurysm occlusion and the incidence of parent-artery thrombosis of two different types of platinum coils, using a canine carotid aneurysm model.METHODS 29 experimental canine carotid aneurysms (19 lateral, 6 bifurcation, and 4 terminal) were constructed and treated with complex-shaped fibered platinum coils and simple curved nonfibered platinum Guglielmi detachable coils (GDCs).RESULTS Fibered complex coils were stable, producing 38% complete aneurysm occlusion and 61% average reduction in aneurysm lumen size but resulting in 19% parent artery occlusions. GDC coils were stable, producing 31% complete aneurysm occlusion and 95% average reduction in aneurysm lumen size with no parent-artery occlusions.CONCLUSIONS GDC coils produced an average reduction in aneurysm lumen size of 95% without any associated parent-artery occlusions. There were no delayed migrations of GDC coils. The ability to remove, reposition, and detach a coil was the most significant feature of the GDC coil.