Recently FDA-Approved Device Closes Wide-Neck Aneurysms

Los Angeles independent travel consultant Stephanie Weiss was told there was no minimally invasive way to treat a wide-neck aneurysm — one of the defects of her having two large and three small aneurysms in her brain. She was told she would have to undergo open-brain surgery.

But in a second consultation with neurosurgeon Michael J. Alexander, MD, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Weiss learned about a new device, approved by the Food and Drug Administration in April, that made it possible to close even wide-neck aneurysms that were pressing against the optic nerves without the risks, pain and longer recovery of major surgery. For more information, click here to read the full release.