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Review

Current Strategies in the Treatment of Intracranial Large and Giant Aneurysms

Matthias Gmeiner  1   2 , Andreas Gruber  1   2
Giuseppe Esposito  1 , Luca Regli  1 , Marco Cenzato  2 , Yasuhiko Kaku  3 , Michihiro Tanaka  4 , Tetsuya Tsukahara  5
, editors.
In: Trends in Cerebrovascular Surgery and Interventions [Internet]. Cham (CH): Springer; 2021.
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Review

Current Strategies in the Treatment of Intracranial Large and Giant Aneurysms

Matthias Gmeiner et al.
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Excerpt

Introduction: Very large and giant aneurysms are among the most challenging cerebrovascular pathologies in neurosurgery.

Methods: The aim of this paper is to review the current literature on the management of very large and giant aneurysms and to describe representative cases illustrating possible treatment strategies.

Results: In view of the poor natural history, active management using multiprofessional individualized approaches is required to achieve aneurysm occlusion, relief of mass effect, and obliteration of the embolic source. Both reconstructive (clipping, coiling, stent-assisted coiling, flow diversion [FD]) and deconstructive techniques (parent artery occlusion [PAO], PAO in conjunction with bypass surgery, and strategies of flow modification) are available to achieve definitive treatment with acceptable morbidity.

Conclusions: Patients harboring such lesions should be managed at high-volume cerebrovascular centers by multidisciplinary teams trained in all techniques of open and endovascular neurosurgery.

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