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Review
. 2022 Feb 15:9:793072.
doi: 10.3389/fcvm.2022.793072. eCollection 2022.

Imaging Modalities for Intracranial Aneurysm: More Than Meets the Eye

Clémence Maupu  1 , Héloïse Lebas  1 , Yacine Boulaftali  1
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Review

Imaging Modalities for Intracranial Aneurysm: More Than Meets the Eye

Clémence Maupu et al. Front Cardiovasc Med. .

Abstract

Intracranial aneurysms (IA) are often asymptomatic and have a prevalence of 3 to 5% in the adult population. The risk of IA rupture is low, however when it occurs half of the patients dies from subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). To avoid this fatal evolution, the main treatment is an invasive surgical procedure, which is considered to be at high risk of rupture. This risk score of IA rupture is evaluated mainly according to its size and location. Therefore, angiography and anatomic imaging of the intracranial aneurysm are crucial for its diagnosis. Moreover, it has become obvious in recent years that several other factors are implied in this complication, such as the blood flow complexity or inflammation. These recent findings lead to the development of new IA imaging tools such as vessel wall imaging, 4D-MRI, or molecular MRI to visualize inflammation at the site of IA in human and animal models. In this review, we will summarize IA imaging techniques used for the patients and those currently in development.

Keywords: hemodynamic imaging; imaging technique; inflammation imaging; intracranial aneurysm; vessel wall imaging.

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The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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