Clinical analysis on microsurgery assisted by improved Paine point ventricular puncture in 67 patients with early intracranial aneurysm rupture / 中国医师进修杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To explore the microsurgery methods in patients with early intracranial aneurysm rupture. Methods Sixty-seven patients with early intracranial aneurysm rupture received the emergency microsurgery after releasing cerebrospinal fluid from improved Paine point via pterion craniotomy. Thirty-nine patients received surgery within 1 d after intracranial aneurysm rupture, and the other 28 patients were within 1-3 d. Results The therapeutic effect was evaluated by Glasgow outcome score (GOS) at discharge. Among the 45 patients with Hunt-Hess Ⅰ-Ⅲ grade, cure was in 41 cases, improved in 4 cases. Among the 22 patients with Hunt-HessⅣ-Ⅴgrade, cure was in 6 cases, improved in 6 cases, moderate disability in 4 cases, severe disability in 1 case, and death was in 5 cases. Conclusions The microsurgery of clipping aneurysm directly via pterion approach is still by far the most reliable treatment. And releasing cerebrospinal fluid from improved Paine points can effectively reduce the acute brain swelling of early operation, which will make it an effective adjuvant therapy to emergency microsurgery of clipping aneurysm.