Cost-effectiveness of preventive treatment of intracranial aneurysms
- 28 July 2009
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Neurology
- Vol. 73 (4) , 258-265
- https://doi.org/10.1212/01.wnl.0b013e3181a2a4ea
Abstract
Background: Previous modeling studies on treatment of unruptured intracranial aneurysms largely disregarded detailed data on treatment risks and omitted several factors that could influence cost-effectiveness. We performed a cost-effectiveness analysis of surgical and endovascular treatment of unruptured aneurysms for different rupture rates and life expectancies, and assessed the influence of excess mortality risks in these persons, de novo development of aneurysms, and utility of awareness of having an untreated aneurysm, and also identified important factors for which data are lacking.Keywords
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