Flow Diverters for Intracranial Aneurysms

Table 2

On-label indications for flow diverters.

Flow diverter	Indication in USA	Indication in Europe
Pipeline embolization device (PED; ev3/Covidien, Irvine, California)	Patients aged 22 and older with large or giant wide-necked intracranial aneurysms in the internal carotid artery from the petrous to superior hypophyseal segments	The endovascular embolization of cerebral aneurysms
Silk flow diverter (SILK; Balt Extrusion, Montmorency, France)	Not yet FDA approved	The treatment of intracranial aneurysms in association with embolization coils
Surpass flow diverter (SURPASS; Stryker Neurovascular, Fremont, CA)	Not yet FDA approved	Saccular or fusiform intracranial aneurysms arising from a parent vessel with a diameter of ≥2 mm and ≤5.3 mm