Insertion of a tiny metal coil into a bleeding aneurysm in the brain appears safer in the long run for some patients than a more-established treatment that requires brain surgery, researchers find. A ...
Oct. 24, 2002 — The International Subarachnoid Aneurysm Trial (ISAT), described in the Oct. 26 issue of The Lancet, was stopped early due to significant benefit with the use of endovascular coils for ...
When doctors discovered a weakened and dangerously bulging blood vessel in Sylvia Chaney's brain they plugged it without surgery using threadthin platinum coils snaked into place via her arteries.