Treatment Strategies
Table: Treatment Strategies (10/2006)
| |
treatment strategy |
| |
conservative therapy |
interventional radiology |
surgery |
radiation |
cardiology, cardiac surgery |
note |
| extracranial stenosis |
+ |
+ |
+ |
- |
- |
1) |
| intracranial stenosis |
+ |
(+) |
- |
- |
- |
2) |
| intracranial aneurysm |
+ |
+ |
+ |
- |
- |
|
| AV-angioma |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
- |
3) |
| Dural arteriovenous fistula |
+ |
+ |
+ |
(+) |
- |
3) |
| sinus and vein thrombosis |
+ |
(+) |
- |
- |
- |
|
| cavernoma |
+ |
- |
+ |
- |
- |
|
| spinal angioma |
+ |
+ |
+ |
(+) |
- |
3) |
| vasospasm following SAH |
+ |
(+) |
- |
- |
- |
|
| acute endocarditis |
+ |
- |
- |
- |
++ |
|
| atrial septal defect |
+ |
- |
- |
- |
(+) |
|
| intracranial haemorrhage |
+ |
- |
+ |
- |
- |
|
| intracranial pressure therapy |
+ |
- |
+ |
- |
- |
|
notes:
1) studies in progress
2) own study pending
3) combined treatment