The pipeline device will not be returned for evaluation as it was implanted in the patient.The event could not be confirmed.A cause of the event could not be conclusively determined from the reported information.Wfitn 2015 abstracts: poster display.(2015).Interventional neuroradiology, 21(1 suppl), 66-89.Doi:10.1177/1591019915618081 mdrs related to this article: 2029214-2016-00538 2029214-2016-00539.
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Medtronic received information from literature review of pipeline migration.The purpose of this article was to review the clinical experience of the pipeline embolization device.Records of 16 patients (mean age 66 years) treated with pipeline were reviewed.The aneurysms were unruptured and ranged in size from 1.5 to 3.6cm.The aneurysms were located in the carotid cavernous, carotid ophthalmic, posterior communicating, and supraclinoid.It was reported that there was "proximal end of stent migration" in one patient.There was reportedly no significant neurological sequelae.No further details were provided.
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