May 30, 2006 — Coil embolization for the treatment of ruptured aneurysms is as effective as surgical clipping, according to results of the first study to prospectively compare long-term outcomes of ...

This study showed that coiling is associated with less harm than clipping in terms of disability measured by mRS and GOS, neurological and cardiac complications, but all of the studies included were ...

Neurosurgical clipping and endovascular coiling are methods used to treat patients who have ruptured intracranial aneurysms; however, the safety and efficacy of these treatments relative to one ...

A study led by UCSF neurologist S. Claiborne Johnston, MD, has shown that coiling of ruptured brain aneurysms is very effective during long-term follow-up, similar to outcomes with surgical clipping.

A recent paper published in The Lancet has compared neurosurgical clipping with endovascular coiling in patients with ruptured intracranial aneurysm. Of the two treatments, endovascular coiling was ...

Treating burst aneurysms by blocking them with platinum coils could offer patients better long-term survival than invasive brain surgery, concludes a randomised trial published in this week's issue of ...