title: [Recommendations for the management of unruptured intracranial aneurysms].
abstract: Optimal management of patients with unruptured intracranial aneurysms (UIAs) remains controversial. Recent studies have found conflicting data regarding the natural history and the treatment outcome of UIAs. Based on the recommendations published by the American Heart Association, the Section of Vascular Neurosurgery of the German Society of Neurosurgery has formed a task force to summarize the available data and to develop a practical framework for the management of UIAs. For UIAs, only evidence from nonrandomized historical cohort comparisons and case series without control subjects are available, supporting only grade C recommendations (options), but no standards (grade A) and no guidelines (grade B). The present recommendations have been developed as a neurosurgical, neuroradiological and neurological consensus. They are based on the existing data of both treatment risks and the risks of the natural history of UIAs.
authors.affiliation: Klinik und Poliklinik für Neurochirurgie, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main. A.Raabe@em.uni-frankfurt.de
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Raabe
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Seifert
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Schmiedek
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Steinmetz
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Bertalanffy
authors.forename: H-J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Steiger
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Stolke
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Forsting
mesh_terms: D001345:Autoradiography; D006801:Humans; D002532:Intracranial Aneurysm / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy*; D019635:Neurosurgical Procedures; D016634:Radiosurgery; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; D018570:Risk Assessment; D016896:Treatment Outcome