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These authors describe the use of 2 intra-aneurysmal catheters to deploy first large coils and then smaller, more traditional coils that ultimately fill the interstices left by the larger coils until aneurysms are tightly packed. When this technique was used to occlude large/giant aneurysms, follow-up angiography revealed no recurrences compared with nearly 40% in a group of similar lesions treated in conventional fashion.

MR studies in more than 1500 patients with dementia revealed that 22% had microbleedsthat were predominantly lobar and occipital in cases of Alzheimer disease. Patients with microbleeds were older, male, and hypertensive. Prevalence, location, and risk factors of microbleeds varied depending on dementia diagnosis and may be taken into account when anticoagulating such patients.