Bypass Surgery for Complex MCA Aneurysms
25 Bypass Surgery for Complex MCA Aneurysms David H. Jho, Gavin P. Dunn, Christopher S. Ogilvy Introduction Complex MCA aneurysms may be categorized into three major groups based on etiology…
Cerebral Revascularization for Moyamoya Disease
18 Cerebral Revascularization for Moyamoya Disease Gordon Li, Michael Lim, Nadia Khan, Gary K. Steinberg Moyamoya disease Moyamoya disease (MMD) is a rare cerebrovascular disorder characterized by idiopathic and progressive…
Cerebral Bypass in the Treatment of ACA Aneurysms
24 Cerebral Bypass in the Treatment of ACA Aneurysms Aditya S. Pandey, B. Gregory Thompson Introduction Cerebral revascularization has had a tumultuous history with the nadir being just after the…
Bypass Surgery for Complex Basilar Trunk Aneurysms
26 Bypass Surgery for Complex Basilar Trunk Aneurysms Nader Sanai, Robert F. Spetzler Introduction Mid- and lower-basilar artery aneurysms represent challenging surgical entities. Midbasilar aneurysms can be defined as those…
OA-PICA Bypass
9 OA-PICA Bypass Mohamed Samy Elhammady, Jacques J. Morcos Introduction Yasargil et al.1 demonstrated the feasibility of EC-IC bypass surgery in 1967 after performing the first successful superficial temporal artery…
EC-IC Bypass for Posterior Circulation Ischemia
17 EC-IC Bypass for Posterior Circulation Ischemia Sepideh Amin-Hanjani, Ali Alaraj, Fady T. Charbel Introduction Posterior circulation strokes account for 30% to 40% of all ischemic strokes, and are particularly…
Decision-Making Strategies for EC-IC Bypass in the Treatment of Skull Base Tumors
31 Decision-Making Strategies for EC-IC Bypass in the Treatment of Skull Base Tumors Philipp Taussky, William Couldwell Introduction Since the first EC-IC bypass operation by Donaghy and Yasargil, both the…
EC-IC Bypass Evidence
16 EC-IC Bypass Evidence Paul R. Gigante, Christopher P. Kellner, E. Sander Connolly, Jr. The first description of an operation intended to provide alternative cerebral blood flow (CBF) was given…
Assessment of Cerebrovascular Reactivity Using Emerging MR Technologies
4 Assessment of Cerebrovascular Reactivity Using Emerging MR Technologies Daniel M. Mandell, David J. Mikulis Extracranial-intracranial (EC-IC) arterial bypass is a potential therapy for the prevention of ischemic stroke in…
Natural History of Giant Intracranial Aneurysms
22 Natural History of Giant Intracranial Aneurysms Mark J. Dannenbaum, Scott Y. Rahimi, Albert J. Schuette, C. Michael Cawley, Daniel L. Barrow Introduction The first clinical series of giant intracranial…
