Our objective was to investigate different cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) techniques for thoracic aortic aneurysm retrospectively. Four hundred and eighty-eight patients with thoracic aortic aneurysm received surgical treatment. Total CPB was used routinely in 331 cases with ascending aortic aneurysm. When the aneurysm expanded to the aortic arch, brain protection was executed by adopting deep hy...

Mycotic aortic aneurysms account for 1–3% of all aortic aneurysms. The management of this disease is controversial. Since open surgical repair is associated with high morbidity and mortality rates, endovascular aneurysm repair is an alternative treatment method with promising early and midterm outcomes, although its long-term durability is unknown.Secondary aortoenteric fistulas may occur iatro...

METHODS Three patients with Borrelia burgdorferi infection and intracranial aneurysms are described. RESULTS All three patients had neurological symptoms. Perivascular and vasculitic lymphocytic inflammation were detected in the brain biopsy specimen of one patient. The aneurysm was located in the internal carotid arteries in two patients and in the basilar artery in one patient. The aneurysm...

Mycotic aneurysms are rare inflammatory neurovascular lesions. Ruptured mycotic aneurysm manifesting as subdural hematoma is extremely rare. A 72-year-old male patient was admitted to our hospital with headache and drowsiness. Computer tomography (CT) of brain and CT angiography revealed subdural hematoma and an aneurysm located at the M4 segment of the left middle cerebral artery (MCA). Cerebr...

We modified a three-dimensional cerebral aneurysm model for surgical simulation and educational demonstration. Novel models are made showing perforating arteries arising around the aneurysm. Information about perforating arteries is difficult to obtain from individual radiological data sets. Perforators are therefore reproduced based on previous anatomical knowledge instead of personal data. Du...

INTRODUCTION Induction of anaesthesia and its associated spikes in blood pressure can cause rupture of an aneurysm during intracranial surgery. Lidocaine can reportedly provide hemodynamic stability when applied before endotracheal intubation. Rapid injection of large doses of lidocaine can cause unconsciousness. CASE PRESENTATION Lidocaine was applied as the sole anaesthetic for induction an...

The occurrence of brain tumors together with aneurysms has been considered as an uncommon phenomenon. However, its incidence may be underestimated. This coexistence is a diagnostic challenge, but also a therapeutic one as no consensus has been reached. We report two cases of a 71 and 67 years old patient with a meningioma and aneurysm: one noticed and treated before with good outcome and the ot...

A 61-year-old woman presented with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) associated with multiple remote intracerebral hemorrhages (ICHs). She had undergone microsurgical neck clipping for ruptured right middle cerebral artery aneurysm and ventriculo-peritoneal shunting 16 years previously. Computed tomography revealed SAH predominantly in the basal cistern and ambient cistern, in associatio...

Ankara Numune Training and Research Hospital, Department of Radiology, Talatpaşa Bulvarı, Sıhhıye/Ankara Phone : +90 (312) 508 44 49 E-mail adress : [email protected] Received: 31.08.2006 • Accepted: 19. 10.2006 Brain tumors and intracranial aneurysms rarely coexist. Until now, 180 cases have been reported (1-3), accounting for an incidence rate of nearly 0.3-4 % (1). The coexistence of meni...