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An 80-year-old female patient presented with a spontaneous Hunt and Hess II, Fisher IV aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) associated with a parenchymal hematoma secondary to the rupture of a small left middle cerebral artery (MCA) M2 segment aneurysm. This was treated with endovascular coil-occlusion and the patient made a good recovery. The affected superior trunk of the left MCA was found to be almost occluded on follow-up DSA without clinical sequelae. The management of ruptured intracranial aneurysms in elderly patients is the main topic of this chapter.
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AlMatter, M., Henkes, H. (2019). Middle Cerebral Artery (M2) Aneurysm: Endovascular Treatment of a Ruptured Left MCA (M2) Aneurysm in an Elderly Patient with Good Clinical Outcome. In: Henkes, H., Lylyk, P., Ganslandt, O. (eds) The Aneurysm Casebook. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70267-4_101-1
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