Affiliation:
1. Department of Neurosurgery, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University (Qingdao), Qingdao, Shandong
2. Department of Neurosurgery, Northern Jiangsu People’s Hospital Affiliated to Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu
3. Department of Neurosurgery, Clinical College of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Neurorehabilitation, Tianjin Medical University
4. Department of Neurosurgery, Tianjin Huanhu Hospital
5. Department of Neurosurgery, Tianjin Central Hospital for Neurosurgery and Neurology, Tianjin, China
Abstract
Objective:
To investigate the clinical characteristics and treatment strategy of anterior circulation aneurysm presenting with cerebral ischemia.
Methods:
We performed a retrospective review of patients with intracranial anterior circulation aneurysms presenting with cerebral ischemia examined in the Fifth Ward of the Neurosurgery Department of Tianjin Huanhu Hospital between September 2016 and September 2023. Data were reviewed for age, sex, presentation, type and size, location, treatment modalities, postoperative complications, clinical and imaging outcomes, and follow-up outcomes.
Results:
Among the 13 patients, there were 8 males and 5 females (1.6:1). Their presentations included ischemic stroke (69.23%, 9/13) and transient ischemic attack (TIA) (30.77%, 4/13). The aneurysms were dissecting (46.15%, 6/13), saccular (30.77%, 4/13), and saccular combined with thrombosis (23.08%, 3/13) in shape. There were 6 giant aneurysms, 4 large aneurysms, and 3 microaneurysms. Three (23.08%, 3/13) aneurysms were located at the internal carotid artery (ICA) and 10 (76.92%, 10/13) were located in the middle cerebral artery (MCA). A preoperative magnetic resonance perfusion (MRP) examination was performed in all patients, and 9 (69.23%, 9/13) patients showed hypoperfusion. Treatment modalities included stent-assisted embolization, direct clipping, clipping combined with bypass, resection combined with bypass, isolated combined with bypass, proximal occlusion combined with bypass, and the internal carotid artery constriction combined with bypass. Twelve (92.31%, 12/13) patients had no postoperative complications, and temporary complications occurred in 1 (7.69%, 1/13) patient. Aneurysms disappeared in 11 cases and shrank in 2 cases postoperatively. All patients were followed up for 1 to 72 months. We found no new cerebral infarction, no subarachnoid hemorrhage, and no recurrence or enlargement of aneurysms during the follow-up.
Conclusions:
Intracranial anterior circulation aneurysm presenting with cerebral ischemia is rare. Saccular aneurysms with wide neck or thrombosis and dissected aneurysms of the anterior circulation may result in cerebral ischemic attack caused by distal vascular embolism. Individualized treatment should be performed, and cerebral revascularization is an effective treatment for patients with intracranial anterior circulation aneurysms presenting with cerebral ischemia.
Publisher
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
Subject
General Medicine,Otorhinolaryngology,Surgery
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