Endovascular coiling versus neurosurgical clipping in patients with a ruptured basilar tip aneurysm.

Objectives: To compare endovascular coiling with neurosurgical clipping of ruptured basilar bifurcation aneurysms.

Methods: Patient and aneurysm characteristics, procedural complications, and clinical and anatomical results were compared retrospectively in 44 coiled patients and 44 patients treated by clipping. The odds ratios for poor outcome (Glasgow outcome scale 1, 2, 3) adjusted for age, clinical condition, and aneurysm size were assessed by logistic regression analysis.

Multifrequency bioelectrical impedance as a measure of differences in body water distribution.

In 38 females, aged 21.3 +/- 1.8 years (mean +/- SD) and 22 males, aged 21.