Treatments for unruptured intracranial aneurysms

CONCLUSIONS: There is currently insufficient good-quality evidence to support either conservative treatment or interventional treatments (microsurgical clipping or endovascular coiling) for individuals with unruptured intracranial aneurysms. Further randomized trials are required to establish if surgery is a better option than conservative management, and if so, which surgical approach is preferred for which patients. Future studies should include consideration of important characteristics such as participant age, gender, aneurysm size, aneurysm location (anterior circulation and posterior circulation), grade of ischemia (major stroke), and duration of hospitalizations.PMID:33971026 | DOI:10.1002/14651858.CD013312.pub2
Source: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews - Category: General Medicine Authors: Source Type: research