Initial clinical experience with a new self-expanding nitinol stent for the treatment of intracranial cerebral aneurysms: the Cordis Enterprise stent.

Background And Purpose: A new neurovascular microstent, the Cordis Enterprise stent, composed of nitinol, with a closed cell design, was specifically developed for the treatment of wide-necked intracranial cerebral aneurysms. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the safety, feasibility, and initial clinical results of using this device in patients.

Methods: In clinical evaluation, five patients ranging in age from 54 to 71 years were electively treated.

Postcoiling aneurysm tilting: a disturbing finding?

We present two patients with posterior tilting of a basilar tip aneurysm after selective coiling. The cause and significance of this finding are discussed.

Long-term angiographic recurrences after selective endovascular treatment of aneurysms with detachable coils.

Background And Purpose: Our aim in this study was to assess the incidence and determining factors of angiographic recurrences after endovascular treatment of aneurysms.

Methods: A retrospective analysis of all patients with selective endosaccular coil occlusion of intracranial aneurysms prospectively collected from 1992 to 2002 was performed. There were 501 aneurysms in 466 patients (mean+/-SD age, 54.

Recurrent ileal conduit hemorrhage in an elderly cirrhotic man.

One recognized complication of portal hypertension in a patient with an ileal urinary conduit is variceal hemorrhage. The definitive treatment for this rare complication is controversial. Local measures, sclerotherapy, stomal revision and various operative portacaval shunts have been described but they have had limited long-term success.