The patient was discharged, without neurological deficits, 48 hours after completion of the endovascular procedure, with clopidogrel (75 mg/d) and aspirin (325 mg/d) therapy. This treatment was discontinued after 4 weeks. According to our search of the medical literature, this is the first clinical case in which an intracranial fusiform aneurysm was permanently sealed with a graft stent.

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We describe the experimental use of an endoluminal shunt in different procedures for small vessel reconstruction. Since the arteries used in this work are similar in diameter to those of the brain, this method could be applied to human vascular surgery.

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