Successful Staged Treatment for Ruptured Blister-Like Dissecting Aneurysm of the Intracranial Internal Carotid Artery: Acute GDC Embolization for the Blister-Like Aneurysm Followed by Proximal Occlusion with Extracranial-Intracranial Bypass in the Chronic Stage

Abstract

The surgical treatment of ruptured blister-like dissecting aneurysm on the internal carotid artery (ICA) is still controversial. We report a case of this disease successfully managed by a staged treatment: GDC packing into the blister-like aneurysm in the acute stage followed by proximal occlusion in the chronic stage. The merit of this staged treatment is to prevent rerupture in the acute stage and to allow the proximal occlusion in the chronic stage with or without an extracranial-intracranial bypass, after assessment of tolerance of the ICA occlusion.

Key words

Ruptured IC dissecting aneurysm - acute embolization - delayed EC-IC bypass

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