Bleeding Risk in Unruptured and Residual Cerebral Aneurysms – Angiographic Annual Growth Rate in Nineteen Patients
Bleeding Risk in Unruptured and Residual Cerebral Aneurysms – Angiographic Annual Growth Rate in Nineteen Patients
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未破裂和残留脑动脉瘤的出血风险 – 19 名患者的血管造影年增长率
DOI:
10.1007/s007010050279
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发表时间:
1999
影响因子:
2.4
通讯作者:
T. Kubo
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作者:
H. Kamitani;Hideaki Masuzawa;I. Kanazawa;T. Kubo
Whether and when unruptured aneurysms or aneurysmal rests following incomplete surgery result in subsequent bleeding are major concerns for neurosurgeons. By calculating the annual growth rate of aneurysms in long-term follow-up angiography (partly supplemented with MR-imaging and/or MR-angiography), we attempted to determine the surgical indications for these aneurysms. Long-term follow-up angiography ranging from one to 20 years was carried out on five patients whose ruptured aneurysms had been incompletely occluded, six patients with multiple aneurysms, of which the ruptured ones had been completely oblitered at operation and the small unruptured aneurysms, missed or misdiagnosed, and eight patients with unruptured aneurysms which were asymptomatic or symptomatic. The correlation of annual aneurysm growth rate to subsequent bleeding was investigated. Four out of six fast-growing aneurysms with high annual growth rates (more than 8% increase per year) resulted in subsequent bleeding whereas none of the fourteen slow-growing aneurysms with low annual growth rates (less than 8% increase per year) led to bleeding (Fisher's exact test; p<0.01). Hypertension, patient age and aneurysmal location showed no significant correlation to the annual growth rate (Fisher's exact test; p>0.05). This study suggests that aneurysmal rests after incomplete surgery and missed or misdiagnosed multiple or incidental aneurysms which are fast growing have a high possibility of subsequent bleeding and should be operated on as soon as possible.