title: The management outcome of patients with a ruptured posterior circulation aneurysm.
abstract: From 1979-1986 121 patients with a vertebro basilar aneurysm were admitted to the Institute of Neurological Sciences, Glasgow. Of the 121 patients, 97 presented with a subarachnoid haemorrhage. In these patients the management mortality was 30% and the operative mortality 13%. Sixteen patients rebled and 16 developed delayed ischaemia. The prognosis of a patient with a ruptured vertebro basilar aneurysm admitted to our Institute is similar to that of a patient with aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage from an anterior circulation aneurysm.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Neurological Sciences, Southern General Hospital, Glasgow, Scotland, U.K.
authors.forename: D A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Lang
authors.forename: S L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Galbraith
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D017542:Aneurysm, Ruptured / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D001488:Basilar Artery / Q000601:surgery*; D002423:Cause of Death; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D002532:Intracranial Aneurysm / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D002546:Ischemic Attack, Transient / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery; D012008:Recurrence; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013345:Subarachnoid Hemorrhage / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D014711:Vertebral Artery / Q000601:surgery*; D014715:Vertebrobasilar Insufficiency / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery