Clipping vs Coiling for Ruptured Intracranial Aneurysms

Fink, Matthew E. MD

Vice Chairman, Professor of Clinical Neurology, Weill Medical College, and Chief, Division of Stroke and Critical Care Neurology, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital

Dr. Fink reports no consultant, stockholder, speaker's bureau, research, or other relationship related to this field of study.

Neurology Alert 24(2):p 12-13, October 2005.

Synopsis:

In a randomized trial of neurosurgical clipping versus endovascular coiling for ruptured intracranial aneurysms, endovascular coiling was more likely to result in independent survival at 1 year.