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Published on: September 8, 2023
Low-profile visualized intraluminal support Blue stenting within a Neuroform Atlas stent for a large wide-necked
Tomoko Hayashi1, Hiroyuki Ikeda1, Ryota Ishibashi1
1Department of Neurosurgery, Kurashiki Central Hospital, Japan.
Abstract:
Low-profile visualized intraluminal support deployment in an Enterprise has been reported; however, that in an Atlas has yet to be in detail. Enterprise has a closed-cell design, while Atlas has an open-cell design. We detail here a case of a large wide-necked aneurysm treated by coil embolization with low-profile visualized intraluminal support Blue deployment within a Neuroform Atlas and a bench-top experiment using a silicon tube to test low-profile visualized intraluminal support, Atlas, Enterprise, and their combinations. A better low-profile visualized intraluminal support expansion was achieved by simultaneously pushing the wire and the system within the Atlas placed at the aneurysm neck, which resulted in an increased metal coverage of the aneurysm neck and a shorter transition zone with low metal coverage at both ends of the aneurysm neck. This technique may enable a high metal coverage by low-profile visualized intraluminal support expansion without restriction by the Atlas and contribute to aneurysm occlusion by increasing the flow-diverting effect.

