Interest of Flow Diversion Prostheses in the Management of Unruptured Intracranial Aneurysms

Table 1

Summary of clinical trials conducted on flow diversion stents.

Device	SILK stent (BALT)		Pipeline embolization device (EV3)
Number of centres	3	18	4	10	1	1
Number of patients	29	70	31	107	53	18
Number of aneurysms	34	70	31	107	63	19
Number of small/large/giant aneurysms	18/12/4	18/37/15	20/9/2	0/85/22	33/22/8	5/10/4
Procedural success implantation	90%	96%	97. 9%	99%	97%
Adjunctive coil placement	0%	14%	51.6%	1%	6%	47%
Number of stent implanted per patient	1.42	/	1.35	3.1	1.37	2.16
30 days mortality rate	4%	2.8%	0	2.8%	0	5.5%
3- or 6-month complete occlusion rate	69%	50%	93%	81.8%	93%	94%
12-month complete occlusion rate	/	100%	NA	85.7%	95%	/
Reference	[20]	[19]	[15]	[16]	[17]	[18]