Publications by authors named "Tobias F Pantel"
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- This study looked at how men and women are affected differently after surgery for unruptured brain aneurysms.
- They found that more women were part of the study and that women were usually older but had fewer other health issues.
- Although women had fewer lung problems after surgery, both men and women had similar overall health issues, survival rates, and brain function immediately after the operation.
Background And Objectives: Microsurgical aneurysm repair by clipping continues to be highly important despite increasing endovascular treatment options, especially because of inferior occlusion rates. This study aimed to present current global microsurgical treatment practices and to identify risk factors for complications and neurological deterioration after clipping of unruptured anterior circulation aneurysms.
Methods: Fifteen centers from 4 continents participated in this retrospective cohort study.
Article Synopsis
- Benchmarks for surgical outcomes of unruptured intracranial aneurysms (UIA) are lacking globally, prompting this study to establish standardized outcome metrics based on a large analysis of 2,245 microsurgical cases across multiple centers.
- The research classified patients into low-risk ("benchmark") and high-risk ("nonbenchmark") groups using established factors, defining benchmark outcomes such as surgery duration, complications, and recovery metrics based on percentages from the patient data.
- The findings resulted in various benchmark cutoffs, revealing significant patient outcome improvements in the benchmark group, including higher rates of favorable neurological outcomes and lower complication rates compared to the nonbenchmark group at follow-up.
Background: The Comprehensive Complication Index (CCI) is a numerical scale based on the Clavien-Dindo classification (CDC) and both are widely used to assess outcome. However, the CCI had not been described for neurosurgical procedures.
Objective: We aimed to investigate the value of the CCI to predict outcome in patients who underwent elective intracranial surgery.
Objective: The influence of preexisting factors on the clinical course of patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), such as patient age, arterial hypertension, and aneurysm characteristics, is still a matter of debate. However, the specific impact of the exact aneurysm location has not received adequate attention. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the influence of aneurysm location as a preexisting factor on the clinical course and mortality.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCraniopharyngioma as a rare tumor originating from cells of rathke's pouch and representing 2-5% of all intracranial tumors is a rare and generally benign neoplasm of the central nervous system with two incidence peaks one in childhood and one after 40 years of age. Data on adult patients is scarce compared to childhood onset tumors, however the burden of disease caused by the tumors and related treatment options is significant. Clinical symptoms range from headaches, visual disability, cranial nerve affection or hypothalamic symptoms (e.
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