Clinical Study

Incidence of Vasospasm, Outcome, and Quality of Life after Endovascular and Surgical Treatment of Ruptured Intracranial Aneurysms: Results of a Single-Center Prospective Study in Switzerland

Table 2

Location, size, and degree of obliteration of the aneurysm according to treatment modality.

Surgical treatmentEndovascular treatment
TotalClinical CVSNo clinical CVSTotalClinical CVSNo clinical CVS

š‘ Patients 41 1229256 19
Location of the aneurysm
ā€ƒICA413211
ā€ƒMCA14311101
ā€ƒPComA1037523
ā€ƒAComA1257918
ā€ƒBA000725
ā€ƒVA000101
ā€ƒPICA101000
Aneurysm size, maximal diameter (mm) 6 . 5 Ā± 3 . 2 6 . 7 Ā± 2 . 3 6 . 4 Ā± 3 . 5 8 . 6 Ā± 4 . 2 8 . 9 Ā± 4 . 4 8 . 5 Ā± 4 . 2
Degree of obliteration (%)*
ā€ƒ10082.910075.95233.357.9
ā€ƒ>904.906.9285021.05
ā€ƒ70ā€“904.906.916021.05
ā€ƒ<707.3010.3416.70

CVS: cerebral vasospasm, MCA: middle cerebral artery; ICA: internal carotid artery, PComA: posterior communicating artery; AComA: anterior communicating artery; BA: basilar artery; VA: vertebral artery; PICA: posterior inferior cerebellar artery; *: based on postinterventional angiography at day 9 Ā± 2 after SAH.