Active clinical trials for "Intracranial Aneurysm"

The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of acupuncture on inflammation and immune function after craniotomy. This study will be a single-center, parallel group clinical trial that will be conducted at Kyung Hee University Hospital at Gangdong, Seoul, Korea.

Dexmedetomidine induces analgesic and sedative effects and is reported to decrease agitation during emergence after general anesthesia in various surgeries. For patients undergoing cranial aneurysm surgeries, a calm anesthesia and emergence is important. In this study, the investigatorstend to observe the effect of dexmedetomidine on maintenance and recovery of patients undergoing cranial aneurysm surgeries.

We hypothesize that in patients undergoing surgical treatment of unruptured intracranial aneurysms, the increase in blood sugar as a result of surgical stress is detrimental to outcome, as measured by blood levels of proteins associated with systemic inflammation and 7 day, 90 day, and 1 year postoperative neurologic and neuropsychiatric outcomes. Because insulin itself is an anti-inflammatory agent, we anticipate that normalizing blood sugar levels with insulin doses higher than normally produced by the body (i.e., "supraphysiologic" insulin doses) will have a greater benefit on these outcomes than equally normalizing blood sugar levels using normal insulin doses. Based on the results of this study, we will be able to determine if a more laborious strategy to normalize blood sugar levels (i.e., "supraphysiologic" insulin therapy) offers any additional benefits to normal insulin dosing strategies. In addition, we will obtain a robust assessment of postoperative neuropsychiatric and neurologic outcomes of surgically repaired unruptured intracranial aneurysms that will serve as the basis for future studies to decrease morbidity of these patients

The purpose of this study is to investigate the feasibility and initial clinical safety of eCLIPs device use for the treatment of wide-necked bifurcation aneurysms. The eCLIPs device is a novel shield like implant that is placed across the neck of the aneurysm and not only facilitates coil retention but also partly obstructs the flow of blood into the aneurysm. This is an early feasibility study, which is a small study investigating an innovative device to gather more clinical data before conducting a larger study. The safety and the effects of the device on the aneurysm will be studied for 12 months after the procedure among 15 patients at approximately 4 participating hospital centers. A larger study will be required to determine the safety and efficacy of the eCLIPs device for the treatment of wide-necked bifurcation aneurysms.

A highly desired result in neuroanesthesia is a prompt, controlled emergence following a neurosurgical procedure. Considerable strides have been made in this direction with volatile anesthetic agents such as sevoflurane or desflurane administered in association with the narcotic remifentanil. It is characteristic that patients will emerge within 5 to 10 minutes of cessation of these agents at the end of a neuroanesthetic. However, there are cases where emergence is delayed, especially after periods of deep anesthesia for i) cerebral protection with temporary clipping of cerebral aneurysms and ii) with microvascular decompression for trigeminal neuralgia. Deep levels of anesthesia are standard for these procedures in the posterior fossa, which utilize motor evoked potentials to assess cranial nerve function. In these cases, EEG monitoring is standard. Using the EEG to monitor emergence to aid its progress makes sense. A monitor which could predict emergence in these patients would be valuable. EEG monitoring engineered to provide this information is now available in the form of the EEGo. This study is designed to test the hypothesis that the EEGo monitor will be superior to the BIS monitor to assess emergence following neuroanesthesia.

The physiopathology of intracranial aneurysm from initiation to ruptured is incompletely understood but included inflammation. The microbiota is known to interact with brain and can promote inflammation. The objective of this study is to describe microbiota with taxonomic and metabolomic analysis. A comparison between ruptured and unruptured intracranial aneurysm will be performed. The study hypothesis is that microbiota is different between ruptured and unruptured patient.

Plastic particles are a ubiquitous pollutant in the living environment and food chain, so far, plenty of studies have reported the internal exposure of microplastics and nanoplastics in human tissues and enclosed body fluids. Neurosurgery is the only department that can open the skull. In addition to blood and cerebrospinal fluid, there are brain tissue and tumors in the presence of lesions. Whether any of these microplastics and nanoplastics are present remains a mystery. This prospective observational study will harvest biological samples of neurosurgery patients. The objective of this research is to be able to detect microplastics and nanoplastics on blood and operation samples of neurosurgery patients.

In recent years, researches on the natural history and risk factors of intracranial unruptured aneurysms have become a hot topic at home and abroad. However, risk factors for aneurysm rupture is still unclear yet. The investigators' preliminary study focused on constructing a rupture risk prediction system for intracranial unruptured aneurysm in the investigators' single center. The investigators' result showed that three significant factors (sex, abnormal serum tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α and coincidence of thin-walled regions (TWR) and normalized wall shear stress (NWSS)) stood out by using logistic regression to explore the rupture risk factors of intracranial unruptured aneurysms, which could help guide the clinical treatment of intracranial unruptured aneurysms. This study is to evaluate and improve the rupture predict model of intracranial unruptured aneurysm in multi-neurosurgical centers.

The main objective of this study is to better estimate the rate of infectious intracranial aneurysms (IIA) in proved infective endocarditis (IE). It also aims to identify MRI markers capable of accurately predicting (or excluding) IIA; to assess the impact of the different MRI abnormalities on the outcome; to capture the real-world management of EI with neurological complications in comprehensive IE centers in France

The purpose of this study is to determine whether mild hypothermia causes reduction of vasoconstriction in microcirculation after clipping of aneurysms, and affects the blood flow in small diameter arteries at operating site (ischemia-hyperemia) and occurrence of vasospasms during the period of 14 postoperative days measured by transcranial Doppler.