Flow-diverter stent
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Flow-diverter stents are relatively new and important devices in the management of intracranial aneurysms, especially ones that are large, broad-necked or fusiform.
Complications
In a multi-centre study in Italy, Briganti et al. reported an overall morbidity rate of 3.7% and a mortality rate of 5.9. The mentioned complications in the literature include:
- side branch occlusion, such as ophthalmic artery and anterior choroidal artery
- in-stent thrombosis
- infarction
- delayed haemorrhage, both parenchymal and subarachnoid
- peri-aneurysmal oedema, that is extension of the inflammatory process accompanying aneurysm thrombosis causing adjacent cerebral oedema
- death
-<p><strong>Flow-diverter stents </strong>are relatively new and important devices in the management of <a href="/articles/saccular-cerebral-aneurysm">intracranial aneurysms</a>, especially ones that are large, broad-necked or fusiform. </p><h4>Complications</h4><p>In a multi-centre study in Italy, Briganti et al reported an overall morbidity rate of 3.7% and a mortality rate of 5.9. The mentioned complications in the literature include:</p><ul>- +<p><strong>Flow-diverter stents </strong>are relatively new and important devices in the management of <a href="/articles/saccular-cerebral-aneurysm">intracranial aneurysms</a>, especially ones that are large, broad-necked or fusiform. </p><h4>Complications</h4><p>In a multi-centre study in Italy, Briganti et al. reported an overall morbidity rate of 3.7% and a mortality rate of 5.9. The mentioned complications in the literature include:</p><ul>
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