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Inflammation and human cerebral aneurysms: current and future treatment prospects
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Inflammation and human cerebral aneurysms: current and future treatment prospects

Joseph S Hudson, Danielle S Hoyne and David M Hasan
Future neurology, Vol.8(6), pp.663-676
11/01/2013
DOI: 10.2217/fnl.13.40
PMCID: PMC3873146
PMID: 24376373
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https://doi.org/10.2217/fnl.13.40View
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Abstract

The formation of cerebral aneurysms and their rupture propensity is of immediate clinical importance. Current management includes observation with expectant management, microsurgical clipping and/or endovascular coiling. The surgical options are invasive and are not without increased risk despite the technological advances. Recent human and animal studies have shown that inflammation plays a critical role in aneurysm formation and progression to rupture. Modulating this inflammatory process may prove to be clinically significant. This review will discuss cerebral aneurysm pathogenesis with a focus on current and future research of potential use of pharmaceutical agents that attenuate inflammation in the aneurysm wall leading to decreased risk of aneurysm rupture.
macrophages ferumoxytol inflammation cerebral aneurysm subarachnoid hemorrhage

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