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AIM: To discuss the features, feasibility, and safety of a combined bilateral approach in the endovascular treatment of intracranial anterior communicating artery (ACoA) aneurysm. MATERIAL AND METHODS: We performed a retrospective analysis of the clinical data of patients with ACoA aneurysm treated with a combined bilateral approach. RESULTS: We successfully embolized aneurysms in nine patients with intracranial ACoA aneurysm using a combined bilateral approach. All treated patients had an open ACoA connecting with the bilateral anterior cerebral arteries. CONCLUSION: Because the ACoA connects the intracranial arteries in both hemispheres, patients with ACoA aneurysm can be endovascularly treated with a combined bilateral approach. Notably, surgeon experience and dexterity play important roles in the success of this procedure.
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Anterior Cerebral Artery/diagnostic imaging , Anterior Cerebral Artery/surgery , Embolization, Therapeutic/methods , Endovascular Procedures/methods , Intracranial Aneurysm/diagnostic imaging , Intracranial Aneurysm/surgery , Aged , Aged, 80 and over , Brain/blood supply , Brain/diagnostic imaging , Brain/surgery , Cerebral Angiography/methods , Female , Follow-Up Studies , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Retrospective StudiesABSTRACT
Conventional endovascular treatment may have limitations for vertebral dissecting aneurysm involving the origin of the posterior inferior cerebellar artery (PICA). We report our experiences of treating vertebral dissecting aneurysm with PICA origin involvement by placing a stent from the distal vertebral artery (VA) to the PICA to save the patency of the PICA. Stenting from the distal VA to the PICA was attempted to treat ruptured VA dissecting aneurysm involving the PICA origin with sufficient contralateral VA in eight patients. The procedure was successfully performed in seven patients with one failure because of PICA origin stenosis, which was treated with two overlapping stents. In the seven patients, PICAs had good patency on postoperative angiography and transient lateral brainstem ischemia represents a procedure-related complication. Follow-up angiographies were performed in seven patients and showed recanalization of the distal VA in three patients without evidence of aneurysmal filling. There was no evidence of aneurysm rupture during the follow-up period, and eight patients had favorable outcomes (mRS, 0 - 1). Placing a stent from the distal VA to the PICA with VA occlusion may present an alternative to conventional endovascular treatment for vertebral dissecting aneurysm with PICA origin involvement with sufficient contralateral VA.
