Prognostic observation of surgery or endovascular embolization for high grade intracranial aneurysms after interim conservative treatment / 中国脑血管病杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To observe the prognostic effects of the patients with intracranial saccular aneurysm (Hunt-Hess grade Ⅳ- Ⅴ)first treated conservatively for 12 hours and then with surgical treatment and endovascular treatment. Methods The clinical data of 32 patients with intracranial saccular aneurysm (grade Ⅳ,n = 24 and gradeⅤ,n = 8)Hunt-Hess grade Ⅳ-Ⅴadmitted from January 2012 to January 2014 were analyzed retrospectively. Sixteen of them were treated conservatively for 12 hours in hospital,and then they were treated with surgery or embolization (postpone surgery group)and 16 underwent emergency surgery or embolization (immediate surgery group). The neurological prognosis of the patients was evaluated at 1,3 and 6 months before and after treatment. Results There was no significant difference in Glasgow outcome scores between the postpone surgery group and immediate surgery group at 1 month after treatment (3. 7 ± 1. 4,3. 8 ± 1. 2;t = 1. 372,P > 0. 05);there was no significant difference in Rankin prognostic scores at 3 months after treatment (3. 7 ± 1. 7,3. 6 ± 1. 5;t = 1. 361,P > 0. 05);But there was significant difference in prognostic scores at 6 months after treatment between the two groups (3. 5 ± 1. 5, 4. 2 ± 1. 8;t = 2. 234,P < 0. 05). Conclusion Patients with high grade cystic aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage can be treated with conservative treatment. After 12 hours,endovascular embolization or surgical treatment may be performed. The prognosis at 6 months is better than emergent direct surgery or embolization.