Tratamiento quirúrgico de aneurismas cerebrales en pacientes en la 8va y 9na decada de vida

Abstract

Subarachnoid haemorrhage due to bleeding of cerebral aneurysms remains a disease with high mortality and morbidity. Advances
in microsurgery and endovascular therapy have failed to reduce the high percentages of poor outcome. The treatment of unruptured aneurysms, on the other hand, becomes more and more routinary, given the good results. A separate chapter is the treatment or not of cerebral aneurysms with or without subarachnoid hemorrhage in elderly patients (older than 70 years). There are several publications about it. The authors make a retrospective review of 179 patients older than 70 years with cerebral aneurysms, with or without subarachnoid bleeding.All were submitted to surgery. We analyze the results, which show that morbidity and mortality in this age group do not differ substantially from those occurring under 70 years of age.