Neurosurgery
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The relationship between cerebral aneurysm size and risk of rupture is well documented, but the impact of aneurysms on distal intracranial hemodynamics is unknown. ⋯ Larger aneurysm size correlates with higher ipsilateral MCA PI, demonstrating that aneurysms affect distal intracranial hemodynamics.
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Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) play an important role in the evaluation of health outcomes, quality of life, and satisfaction, and have been successfully utilized in many areas of clinical medicine and surgical practice. The prevalence of PROMs in neurosurgery is not known. ⋯ PROMs that currently feature in the neurosurgical literature may not address the specific outcomes relevant to neurosurgical practice. There is an emergent need for generic and disease-specific PROMs to be validated in neurosurgical patients and neurosurgery-specific PROMs developed to address unmet needs of patients undergoing neurosurgical procedures.