[Effect of nimodipine on the results of surgical treatment of intracranial aneurysms--preliminary report]

Abstract

The authors give a preliminary report on the outcome of surgery in 65 patients with ruptured intracranial aneurysms treated with nimodipine. A control group consisted of 137 subjects. The number of patients is too small to reach unequivocal conclusions. However, it seems that in patients operated on for ruptured cerebral aneurysm the treatment with nimodipine gave best results in cases in which it was administered before the onset of ischaemic neurological deficit.