If left untreated, hemorrhagic stroke can result in serious neurological deficits or death. Endovascular Coiling is one of the procedures offering new hope to hemorrhagic stroke patients who had been told previously that they had no further treatment options. It is also a way to treat both ruptured and unruptured aneurysms.
Hemorrhagic stroke is caused when a weakened blood vessel from an aneurysm or a condition called arteriovenous malformation, or AVM, result in a rupture that bleeds into the brain. The leaked blood puts too much pressure on brain cells, which damages them.
Arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) in particular are extremely difficult to diagnose, and symptoms tend to occur only after the damage they cause to the brain or spinal cord reaches a critical level. AVMs damage the brain or spinal cord through three basic mechanisms:
The goal of endovascular coiling is to isolate an aneurysm or AVM from the normal blood circulation, without blocking off any small arteries nearby or narrowing the main vessel. Endovascular is a minimally invasive technique—accessing the aneurysm or AVM from within the bloodstream.
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