• World Neurosurg · Mar 2017

    Outcome, prognostic factors and follow up results after subarachnoid hemorrhage from pericallosal artery aneurysms.

    • Nazife Dinc, Stephanie Lescher, Johanna Quick-Weller, Joachim Berkefeld, Johannes Platz, Christian Senft, Volker Seifert, and Juergen Konczalla.
    • Department of Neurosurgery, Goethe University Hospital, Frankfurt, Germany. Electronic address: dinc.nazife@gmail.com.
    • World Neurosurg. 2017 Mar 1; 99: 566-571.

    ObjectivePericallosal artery aneurysms (PAAs) are usually rare (2%-5%), and treatment is challenging for both surgical and endovascular modalities. We performed this analysis to determine the outcome and prognostic factors after subarachnoidal hemorrhage (SAH) caused by ruptured PAAs.MethodsA total of 32 patients with ruptured PAA were admitted to our hospital between 1999 and 2014, added to our prospective database, and analyzed retrospectively. Outcome was measured based on the modified Rankin Scale (mRS) at 6 months after ictus (favorable mRS score, 0-2 vs. unfavorable mRS score, 3-6).ResultsOnly 16 (50%) patients had a good clinical status at admission (World Federation of Neurological Surgeons Grading System [WFNS] grades I-III), whereas 12 patients (37.5%) were comatose (WFNS grade V). In 18 patients (56%), intracerebral hemorrhage was confirmed, in 18 patients (56%) cerebrospinal fluid drainage was required immediately after admission, and in 5 cases (16%) decompressive craniectomy was performed. There were 17 patients (53.1%) who achieved a favorable outcome (mRS score 0-2) at follow-up. Unfavorable outcome was associated with smoking, cerebral infarction, and worse admission status after multiple logistic regression analysis.ConclusionsPoor admission status, cerebral infarction, and smoking seem to be crucial factors for unfavorable outcome after SAH from PAA.Copyright © 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

      Pubmed     Full text   Copy Citation     Plaintext  

      Add institutional full text...

    Notes

     
    Knowledge, pearl, summary or comment to share?
    300 characters remaining
    help        
    You can also include formatting, links, images and footnotes in your notes
    • Simple formatting can be added to notes, such as *italics*, _underline_ or **bold**.
    • Superscript can be denoted by <sup>text</sup> and subscript <sub>text</sub>.
    • Numbered or bulleted lists can be created using either numbered lines 1. 2. 3., hyphens - or asterisks *.
    • Links can be included with: [my link to pubmed](http://pubmed.com)
    • Images can be included with: ![alt text](https://bestmedicaljournal.com/study_graph.jpg "Image Title Text")
    • For footnotes use [^1](This is a footnote.) inline.
    • Or use an inline reference [^1] to refer to a longer footnote elseweher in the document [^1]: This is a long footnote..

    hide…

What will the 'Medical Journal of You' look like?

Start your free 21 day trial now.

We guarantee your privacy. Your email address will not be shared.