Endovascular therapy of direct dural carotid cavernous fistulas - A therapy assessment study including long-term follow-up patient interviews.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Endovascular embolization nowadays is a well-established treatment option for direct carotid cavernous fistulas (dCCF, Barrow Type A). There are many publications on the complication and success rates of this method. However, little is known on the patients´ opinion on the treatment result after several years. We report on this issue also including the "pioneer patients" treated almost two decades ago.

Methods

We retrospectively reviewed the records of all patient (n = 25) with a more than 24 months follow-up interval after endovascular treatment of a dCCF at our institution from 01/1999 to 08/2018. We determined primary therapy success, complication rate, state of the fistula in the last imaging follow-up and quoted the patient's subjective perception of the long-te

SUBMITTER: Ertl L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6797194 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature