Journal article
Preliminary experience with Precipitating Hydrophobic Injectable Liquid (PHIL) in treating cerebral AVMs
Journal of neurointerventional surgery, Vol.8(12), pp.1253-1255
12/2016
DOI: 10.1136/neurintsurg-2015-012210
PMID: 26819446
Abstract
ObjectiveTo describe our early experience in treating cerebral arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) with the new Precipitating Hydrophobic Injectable Liquid (PHIL) embolic material.Materials and methodsBetween June and August 2015 five patients with cerebral AVMs were treated at two tertiary university hospitals. PHIL was used as complementary treatment to Onyx liquid embolic material or as the sole endovascular treatment.ResultsFive patients (average age 39 years (range 19–73)) with ruptured plexiform AVMs were treated. The group included one patient with Spetzler–Martin grade II AVMs, three grade III, and one grade IV. One grade II and two grade III AVMs were cured. A total of nine pedicles were embolized with an average of two pedicles per session. There were no procedural complications. One patient had a seizure after embolization but a brain CT scan showed no hemorrhage.ConclusionsPHIL is a new embolic agent that can be used for the treatment of cerebral AVMs.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Preliminary experience with Precipitating Hydrophobic Injectable Liquid (PHIL) in treating cerebral AVMs
- Creators
- Edgar A Samaniego - Departamento de Neuroradiologia Intervencionista, Hospital Eugenio Espejo, Quito, EcuadorVladimir Kalousek - Department of Radiology, Clinical Hospital Center “Sestre Milosrdnice”, Zagreb, CroatiaGerman Abdo - Departamento de Neuroradiologia Intervencionista, Hospital Eugenio Espejo, Quito, EcuadorSantiago Ortega-Gutierrez - Division of Interventional Neuroradiology/Endovascular Neurosurgery, Department of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Radiology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of neurointerventional surgery, Vol.8(12), pp.1253-1255
- DOI
- 10.1136/neurintsurg-2015-012210
- PMID
- 26819446
- ISSN
- 1759-8478
- eISSN
- 1759-8486
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 12/2016
- Academic Unit
- Neurology; Radiology; Iowa Neuroscience Institute; Neurosurgery
- Record Identifier
- 9984013108702771
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