Jv. Byrne et al., EMBOLIZATION OF RECENTLY RUPTURED INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSMS, Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, 59(6), 1995, pp. 616-620
Patients with subarachnoid haemorrhage due to the rupture of aneurysms
unsuitable for craniotomy and clipping have been treated by coil embo
lisation within three weeks. Sixty nine of 75 consecutive patients wer
e sucessfully treated. Procedure related complications occurred in 10
patients, resulting in permanent neurological deficits in three and on
e death (4.8%). The Glasgow outcome scores at six weeks were 53 grade
1, seven grade 2, four grade 3, and five grade 5. These results are co
mparable with surgical series despite a high proportion of aneurysms i
n the posterior cerebral circulation.