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SNIS Annual Meeting oral abstracts
022 Ischemic stroke versus bleeding risk in patients with acutely ruptured saccular aneurysms treated with stent assisted coiling
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Introduction: Antiplatelet agents are required to prevent thromboembolic complications from recently deployed intracranial stents, yet carry a risk of bleeding complications that may be serious in patients with recent subarachnoid hemorrhage.
Method: We retrospectively reviewed consecutive patients at our institution that had a ruptured intracranial saccular aneurysm treated with Neuroform stent assisted coiling. Patients with ruptured pseudoaneurysms were excluded. Our primary comparison was the …