COMBINED ENDOVASCULAR STENT IMPLANTATION AND ENDOSACCULAR COIL PLACEMENT FOR THE TREATMENT OF A WIDE-NECKED VERTEBRAL ARTERY ANEURYSM - TECHNICAL CASE-REPORT

OBJECTIVE AND IMPORTANCE: We describe a case in humans of the combined application of endovascular stent placement and Guglielmi detachable coil packing in the management of a wide-necked intracranial aneurysm. CLINICAL PRESENTATION: A 56-year-old woman suffered a subarachnoid he morrhage secondary to a large wide-necked left vertebral artery aneury sm. Because of the size of the neck of the aneurysm and the extent of its calcification evident on computed tomographic scans, it was deemed unsuitable for surgical intervention or for conventional endovascular coiling. Instead, a combined surgical and endovascular therapy was in stituted. INTERVENTION: The left vertebral artery was surgically expos ed and cannulated to allow for the placement of an endovascular stent across the neck of the aneurysm to act as a buttress against which Gug lielmi detachable coils could be packed. The patient suffered no ill e ffects as a result of this procedure and made a slow but steady recove ry. CONCLUSION: This report describes a case of a wide-necked intracra nial artery aneurysm treated using a combination of endovascular stent implantation across an aneurysm neck and endosaccular coil placement to obliterate the aneurysm. The technique described provides another t reatment to better manage the difficult entity of wide-necked intracra nial aneurysms that may be unsuitable for clipping.