Rapidly growing PCOM-Aneurysm treated with the Contour Neurovascular System™

Author: KILLER-OBERPFALZER Monika

Find out how Prof. Monika Killer-Oberpfalzer (University Hospital Salzburg, Paracelsus Medical University, Austria) treated a 51 year-old female patient suffering from an aneurysm  of the PCOM section of the right ICA.

• Case

  CASE PRESENTATION

  • 51-year-old female experienced Cephalea and right III nerve palsy, admitted to our hospital in the course of development of ophthalmoplegia of the right eye
  • Incidental finding: Aneurysm  of the PCOM section of the right ICA with a size of 5 mm - confirmed by diagnostic angiography
  • 5 days later, at the time of the scheduled therapy, the aneurysm was clearly progressing in size, with a small daughter aneurysm (including daughter aneurysm the max length had grown to 8mm)
  • Clinically with persistent double vision with internal and external oculomotor paresis of the right eye, despite treatment with cortisone

   

  

   

   

  CONTOUR EMBOLIZATION

  • Chaperon 6F
  • Headway 27 Micro-catheter
  • Asahi 0.014 Micro-wire
  • Contour System 7 mm

   

  

   

  RESULT

  • clinical improvement during 2 weeks post embolization
  • Complete aneurysm occlusion at 6 month follow up and remaining stable at 1 year

   

  

  

   

   

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  This case is sponsored by Cerus Endovascular