Quality of life after treatment for incidental, unruptured intracranial aneurysms

摘要

Background. Discovering an intracranial aneurysm may profoundly affect the patient’s quality of life. Patients living with unruptured and untreated aneurysms often report symptoms of anxiety and depression. There are few trials studying the quality of life after treatment of unruptured intracranial aneurysms. We aimed to compare the quality of life and symptoms of anxiety or depression after endovascular coiling or open surgery clipping of unruptured intracranial aneurysms, in patients with no prior subarachnoid haemorrhage.