title: Treatment of Intracranial Aneurysm with Bare Stent only.
abstract: Typical treatment of intracranial aneurysm includes: surgical clipping, intrasacular packing, and parent artery occlusion. The treatment of a fusiform aneurysm is often parent artery occlusion, and keeping patency of the parent artery is difficult.We report our experience in the treatment of 3 cases of intracranial fusiform aneurysm with stent placement inside the parent artery only, without coil packing of the aneurysm lumen. All 3 patients had a non-hemorrhagic dissecting aneurysm in the vertebral artery. They were treated with 2 Helistents, 3 Neuroform stents, and 2 Neuroform stents, respectively. These aneurysms disappeared after treatment at their follow-up angiograms. Treatment with a bare stent may induce obliteration or reduction in the size of some aneurysms. This technique is useful in the treatment of non-hemorrhagic fusiform-shaped aneurysms or non-hemorrhagic dissecting aneurysms to preserve the patency of these parent arteries.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan - mmhteng@vghtpe.gov.tw.
authors.forename: Michael Mu Huo
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Teng
authors.forename: Chao Bao
authors.initials: CB
authors.lastname: Luo
authors.forename: Feng Chi
authors.initials: FC
authors.lastname: Chang
authors.forename: Harsan
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Harsan