EMBOLIZATION OF RECENTLY RUPTURED INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSMS

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.