QUANTIFICATION OF HEMODYNAMIC CHANGES INDUCED BY VIRTUAL PLACEMENT OF MULTIPLE STENTS ACROSS A WIDE-NECKED BASILAR TRUNK ANEURYSM

摘要

OBJECTIVEThe porous intravascular stents that are currently available may not cause complete aneurysm thrombosis and may therefore fail to provide durable protection against aneurysm rupture when used as a sole treatment modality. The goal of this study was to quantify the effects of porous stents on aneurysm hemodynamics using computational fluid dynamics.