Background Our aim was to assess the long-term risks of death, disability, and rebleeding in
patients randomly assigned to clipping or endovascular coiling after rupture of an …

Background Patients who have had an aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH) are
at very high risk of rebleeding if the aneurysm is not treated. The standard treatment for …

Background Endovascular detachable coil treatment is being increasingly used as an
alternative to craniotomy and clipping for some ruptured intracranial aneurysms, although the …

Background Previous analyses of the International Subarachnoid Aneurysm Trial (ISAT)
cohort have reported on the risks of recurrent subarachnoid haemorrhage and death or …

Background Two types of treatment are being used for patients with ruptured intracranial
aneurysms: endovascular detachable-coil treatment or craniotomy and clipping. We undertook …

Although products for nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) have been available for over 20
years, they have been excluded until recently from state or insurance based health service …

Object. During a 5-year period 317 patients presenting with aneurysmal subarachnoid
hemorrhage were successfully treated by coil embolization within 30 days of hemorrhage. The …

Background In 1937, Walter Dandy reported the first successful surgical clipping of the neck
of an aneurysm. Microsurgical techniques have steadily evolved since then, with …

Background and Purpose— Because the long-term security of endovascular treatments
remains uncertain, a follow-up study of the patients treated in the International Subarachnoid …

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: This study was designed to investigate the safety and
efficacy of the Onyx liquid embolic system in treating a selected population of patients with …