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 ...

This study showed that coiling is associated with less harm than clipping in terms of disability measured by mRS and GOS, neurological and cardiac complications, but all of the studies included were ...

Neurosurgical clipping and endovascular coiling are methods used to treat patients who have ruptured intracranial aneurysms; however, the safety and efficacy of these treatments relative to one ...

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.

Current analyses of the cost-effectiveness of endovascular coiling versus surgical clipping in patients with ruptured aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) are based on limited cost information ...

Despite growing use of endovascular coiling instead of surgical clipping to treat unruptured intracranial aneurysms, outcomes have not improved since the mid 1990s, according to research published ...

Treating burst aneurysms by blocking them with platinum coils could offer patients better long-term survival than invasive brain surgery, concludes a randomised trial published in this week's issue of ...

Preliminary results of a long-term study suggest that coils inserted into burst aneurysms in the brain decrease by 25 percent the risk of patient death and disability during the first year after the ...

Endovascular coiling to treat ruptured and unruptured intracranial aneurysms offers high long-term occlusion rates in elderly patients, according to a meta-analysis published in the July 2013 issue of ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., July 29, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Study results released today at the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery (SNIS) 8 th Annual Meeting reveals that treatment costs for some ...

Surgeons, in a study published in The Lancet, have proposed treating burst aneurysms with platinum coils instead of brain surgery. Surgeons, in a study published in The Lancet, have proposed treating ...