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An international clinical trial has demonstrated the efficacy of a new endovascular technique (medical procedure to treat blood vessels in the brain or other parts of the body and above all is a better alternative to open surgery) in the treatment of the aneurysm. Condition have 5% of the population

U.S. and in Spain it is estimated that 20% of sudden deaths are caused by this disease. The study, called MAPS, which involved over 600 patients, a hundred of them from four Spanish hospitals (that of San Sebastian, the Ruber Internacional in Madrid, General Universitario de Alicante and Barcelona Clinic) has made a breakthrough in the treatment of this disease.

The advance is the effectiveness of a new technique called coiling to treat ruptured aneurysms and unruptured, “with optimum results in more than 90% of cases”, told Reuters one of the principal investigators of the study Cameron McDougall , head of Endovascular Neurosurgery at Barrow Neurological Institute St. Joseph’s Hospital in California. This system is less aggressive than previous techniques, says McDougall. “The method is as follows: The doctor accesses the condition through a catheter inserted into the femoral artery in the patient’s leg with small coils of platinum filament electrocargables to coagulate the aneurysm and stop the flow of blood,” summarizes the neurosurgeon.

The aneurysm is a balloon-like enlargement of the walls of an artery that carries oxygenated blood from the heart to other parts of the body, in this case the brain. When it breaks, can cause cerebral hemorrhage. Currently, the most common treatment recommended, although extremely aggressive, surgery with clips. A technique in which the surgeon removes part of the Read the rest of this entry »