Abstract WP94: Clinical Outcomes of Unruptured Cerebral Aneurysms Treated With Clipping or Coiling in Japan: The J-aspect Study

Abstract

Background: Evaluation of the overall clinical outcomes of stroke care is important for improving institutional quality of care. We performed a nationwide survey in Japan to analyze cases of unruptured cerebral aneurysms using the diagnostic procedure combination (DPC). Methods and Results: Certified neurosurgical training institutions in Japan provided data from the DPC database on patients hospitalized with neurosurgical diseases between April 1, 2012 and March 31, 2013. Patients hospitalized owing to unruptured cerebral aneurysms were identified from the DPC database based on the International Classification of Diseases (ICD)-10 diagnosis code (I671). We excluded patients with emergency admissions. We compared the mortality rates, modified Rankin Scale (mRS) scores, postoperative complications of patients who underwent clipping and coiling. With respect to postoperative complications, we evaluated the ratio of an event of complication (brain infarction, brain hemorrhage and cardiac infarction) and the number of complications (scored using patient safety indicators: PSIs and hospital-acquired conditions: HACs). We used hierarchical logistic regression models to estimate the odds ratios (ORs) for in-hospital mortality and complications. We identified 6329 patients with unruptured cerebral aneurysms (3710 clipping, 2619 coiling). Patient characteristics, mortality rates, and mRS were similar between groups. Patients who underwent coiling had a significantly lower number of complications than patients who underwent clipping (PSIs: OR = 0.40; P < 0.001, HACs: OR = 0.47; P = 0.001). Adversely, there was an increased likelihood of ischemic stroke in coiling patients compared with clipping patients (coiling: 7.2%; clipping: 4.7%; OR = 1.37; P = 0.011). 83.2% of coiling patients underwent MRI after the operation, compared with 37.3% of clipping patients. Conclusions: Our data demonstrated that coiling patients had lower number of post-operative complications and higher number of ischemic stroke than clipping patients. But the cause that higher number of coiling patients had ischemic stroke than clipping patients because higher number of coiling patients were underwent MRI after operation compared with clipping patients.