A study led by UCSF neurologist S. Claiborne Johnston, MD, has shown that coiling of ruptured brain aneurysms is very effective during long-term follow-up, similar to outcomes with surgical clipping.

May 30, 2006 — Coil embolization for the treatment of ruptured aneurysms is as effective as surgical clipping, according to results of the first study to prospectively compare long-term outcomes of ...

A very low risk of complication is associated with a routine test that determines whether a brain aneurysm treated with endovascular coiling has started to recur, a study has shown. A very low risk of ...

Aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) remains a devastating type of stroke that is more often fatal, and more often affects younger persons, than other stroke types. One of the most important ...

Oct. 24, 2002 — The International Subarachnoid Aneurysm Trial (ISAT), described in the Oct. 26 issue of The Lancet, was stopped early due to significant benefit with the use of endovascular coils for ...

The risks associated with treating a recurrent or residual brain aneurysm that was initially treated by endovascular coiling are low, according to a multicenter study. The risks associated with ...

A recent paper published in The Lancet has compared neurosurgical clipping with endovascular coiling in patients with ruptured intracranial aneurysm. Of the two treatments, endovascular coiling was ...

A brain aneurysm coil fills the aneurysm with platinum coils to help form a blood clot, sealing it off and lowering the risk of rupture. Brain aneurysms are weak spots in blood vessel walls that can ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with intracranial aneurysms who underwent embolization with second-generation hydrogel-coated coils ...

SEATTLE — Brain aneurysms occur suddenly and anyone is susceptible to them. The Brain Aneurysm Foundation estimates about one in 50 people in the U.S. will suffer from one at some point in their life.

CINCINNATI—A very low risk of complication is associated with a routine test that determines whether a brain aneurysm treated with endovascular coiling has started to recur, a study led by the ...