Quality of Life After Poor-Grade Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage.

Background: Poor-grade aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH) is associated with high mortality and poor disability outcome. Data on quality of life (QoL) among survivors are scarce because patients with poor-grade aSAH are underrepresented in clinical studies reporting on QoL after aSAH.

Objective: To provide prospective QoL data on survivors of poor-grade aSAH to aid clinical decision making and counseling of relatives.

Herniation World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies Scale Improves Prediction of Outcome in Patients With Poor-Grade Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage.

Background: Favorable outcomes are seen in up to 50% of patients with World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies (WFNS) grade V aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage. Therefore, the usefulness of the current WFNS grading system for identifying the worst scenarios for clinical studies and for making treatment decisions is limited. We previously modified the WFNS scale by requiring positive signs of brain stem dysfunction to assign grade V.

Augmented Reality Fluorescence Imaging in Cerebrovascular Surgery: A Single-Center Experience with Thirty-Nine Cases.

Background: Several intraoperative imaging methods exist in cerebrovascular surgery to visualize and analyze the vascular anatomy flow. A new method based on multispectral fluorescence (MFL) imaging of indocyanine green (ICG) video angiography (VA) allows real-time, augmented reality (AR) visualization of blood flow superimposed on white-light microscopic images. We describe our single-center experience using MFL AR in cerebrovascular surgery.

Correction to: Ruptured PICA aneurysms: presentation and treatment outcomes compared to other posterior circulation aneurysms. A Swiss SOS study.

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Ruptured PICA aneurysms: presentation and treatment outcomes compared to other posterior circulation aneurysms. A Swiss SOS study.

Background And Purpose: Aneurysms of the posterior inferior cerebellar artery (PICA) are relatively uncommon and evidence is sparse about patients presenting with ruptured PICA aneurysms. We performed an analysis of the Swiss SOS national registry to describe clinical presentation, treatment pattern, and neurological outcome of patients with ruptured PICA aneurysms compared with other ruptured posterior circulation (PC) aneurysms.

Methods: This was a retrospective analysis of anonymized data from the Swiss SOS registry (Swiss Study on Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage; 2009-2014).

Correction to: Ruptured posterior circulation aneurysms: epidemiology, patterns of care, and outcomes from the Swiss SOS national registry.

The name of Roy Thomas Daniel was incorrectly captured in the original manuscript.

Ruptured posterior circulation aneurysms: epidemiology, patterns of care, and outcomes from the Swiss SOS national registry.

Background: The treatment of ruptured posterior circulation aneurysms remains challenging despite progresses in the endovascular and neurosurgical techniques.

Objective: To provide epidemiological characterization of subjects presenting with ruptured posterior circulation aneurysms in Switzerland and thereby assessing the treatment patterns and neurological outcomes.

Methods: This is a retrospective analysis of the Swiss SOS registry for patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage.

Cerebral venous thrombosis requiring invasive treatment for elevated intracranial pressure in women with combined hormonal contraceptive intake: risk factors, anatomical distribution, and clinical presentation.

OBJECTIVE Women taking combined hormonal contraceptives (CHCs) are generally considered to be at low risk for cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT). When it does occur, however, intensive care and neurosurgical management may, in rare cases, be needed for the control of elevated intracranial pressure (ICP). The use of nonsurgical strategies such as barbiturate coma and induced hypothermia has never been reported in this context.

Intended Near-Total Removal of Koos Grade IV Vestibular Schwannomas: Reconsidering the Treatment Paradigm.

Background: The goals of treating Koos grade IV vestibular schwannomas are to relieve brainstem compression, preserve or restore neurological function, and achieve long-term tumor control while minimizing tumor- and treatment-related morbidity.

Objective: To propose a treatment paradigm involving the intentional near-total removal of Koos grade IV vestibular schwannomas, in which a small amount of residual tumor is not dissected off the cisternal portion of the facial nerve. Patients are then followed by a wait-and-scan approach.

A Review of the Literature on the Transciliary Supraorbital Keyhole Approach.

Background: Conventional craniotomy approaches involve substantial soft tissue manipulation that can cause complications. The transciliary supraorbital keyhole approach was developed to avoid these complications. The aim of this review is to evaluate the safety and the effectiveness of the transciliary supraorbital keyhole approach.