The addition of a simple stent can help prevent potentially lethal blood vessel bulges in the brain from recurring after they are repaired in a minimally invasive "coiling" procedure, according to new ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A small study suggests that a surgical treatment generally used on patients with tumors and certain brain disorders may put a stop to nosebleeds that won't stop any other ...

Treating burst aneurysms by blocking them with platinum coils could offer patients better long-term survival than invasive brain surgery, concludes a randomised trial published in this week's issue of ...

PESHAWAR: Local doctors, in collaboration with a US-based Pakistani neurosurgeon, have successfully performed brain aneurysm coiling, a modern neuro-endovascular procedure, at the Lady Reading ...

Stent-assisted coiling (SAC) for ruptured intracranial aneurysms (RIAs) remains controversial due to an inherent risk of potential thromboembolic and hemorrhagic complications. We compared SAC and ...

Endovascular coiling represents the standard treatment for basilar tip aneurysms. Some of these aneurysms are not amenable to conventional coiling due to a complex aneurysm geometry, hence, novel ...

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General Hospital star Kirsten Storms has revealed her health battle after moving from Los Angeles to Nashville. Storms, 41 revealed in an Instagram post that she's set to undergo a "coiling procedure ...

Dr. Mouhammed Rami Kabbani, a Gundersen neurosurgeon, conducted the first coiling surgery to repair a brain aneurysm in La Crosse two years ago. He has done more than 120 surgeries and has saved many ...

An unruptured brain aneurysm is a bulging blood vessel in your brain that has not burst. It may pose serious health risks and is usually treated with surgery or medication. Healthcare professionals ...