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Simulator Training for Endovascular Neurosurgery
Published on: May 6, 2020
Pre-procedural simulation for precision stent-assisted coiling of cerebral aneurysm
Naoki Kaneko1, Arjun Minhas2, Satoshi Tateshima1
11 Department of Radiological Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Abstract:
Artificial vascular models are emerging as a newly-inexpensive and accurate way to simulate a procedure before the treatment. Through utilization of precision three-dimensionally printed, silicone-reconstructed, patient-specific models of aneurysms, we can compare the performance of devices including stents, and accurately predict the behavior of the microcatheter and stent-assisted coiling in the aneurysm to not only reduce procedural time, but also make the procedure safer. Here we report two challenging cases of wide-necked aneurysms, which could be safely treated with stent-assisted coiling as simulated in the patient-specific aneurysm models.
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