World Neurosurg
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Multicenter Study
Treatment of blood blister-like aneurysms with stent-assisted coiling: a retrospective multicenter study.
To clarify safety and efficacy of stent-assisted coiling for treatment of blood blister-like aneurysm (BBA) in a multicenter experience. ⋯ Our data support the use of overlapping (≥2) stents combined with coiling as a safe and effective therapeutic modality for BBA. Overlapping (≥2) stents may provide higher obliteration rate, lower recurrence rate, and lower perioperative hemorrhagic risk in treatment of BBA.
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After 10 years of training in their home country, neurosurgeons at Black Lion Specialized Hospital (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) operated on skull base meningiomas independent of their external teachers. The present study used a retrospective design of an in-hospital series with short-term follow-up. ⋯ A young faculty of neurosurgeons in a low income country was trained to perform neurosurgery for skull base meningiomas. The patients had presented at a young age with severe disabilities due to advanced disease. Surgery led to symptom improvement in a large proportion of patients; however, the complication and mortality rates were high.
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The transfemoral approach is widely used by neurointerventionalists for accessing the femoral artery in patients undergoing diagnostic and therapeutic endovascular procedures. In patients with more difficult anatomy, duplex ultrasonography (US) may be a valuable adjunct for femoral vascular access. We aimed to assess the evidence for the effectiveness of duplex US-guided femoral access within interventional neuroradiology. ⋯ US-guided femoral artery access for endovascular procedures is a safe and effective adjunct for visualizing the femoral artery during vascular access for endovascular procedures. Neurointerventionalists should consider a low threshold for its use, especially for patients with challenging anatomy or at high-risk of bleeding complications.
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Cardiac dysfunction may worsen outcomes after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). This study quantitatively assessed the prognostic value of left ventricular dysfunction with respect to functional outcomes and mortality in patients with aneurysmal SAH. ⋯ The present meta-analysis suggests that the identification of echocardiographic left ventricular dysfunction identified by RWMA and NCM after SAH could provide better prognostic information for in-hospital mortality.
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Review Case Reports
Spinal Intradural E. Coli Abscess Masquerading as a Neoplasm in a Pediatric Patient with History of Neonatal E. Coli Meningitis: a case report and literature review.
Central nervous system abscesses frequently can be seen in the immunocompromised population and most commonly consist of intracranial collections in the adult patient. Spinal intradural abscesses are less commonly encountered, and there are even fewer numbers in the pediatric population with a concordant absence of documentation in the published literature. ⋯ Here we present an unusual disease process with an unusual disease pathogenesis in a pediatric patient currently residing in a developed country.