Table 2:
Major complications associated with coiling compared with clipping
| Complications | Coiling | Clipping | Crude Analysis |
Adjusted Analysis |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OR (95% CI) | P Value | OR (95% CI) | P Value | |||
| Aneurysm rebleeding | 6 (4.5%) | 2 (1.6%) | 3.00 (0.59–15.15) | .180 | 3.41 (0.55–21.27) | .189 |
| Cerebral infarction | 15 (11.3%) | 23 (17.8%) | 0.59 (0.29–1.18) | .140 | 0.62 (0.26–1.49) | .283 |
| Symptomatic vasospasm | 14 (10.5%) | 13 (10.1%) | 1.05 (0.47–2.33) | .910 | 0.53 (0.18–1.59) | .259 |
| Radiologic hydrocephalus | 19 (14.3%) | 7 (5.4%) | 2.91 (1.18–7.17) | .020 | 3.36 (1.13–10.01) | .030 |
| Clinical hydrocephalus | 14 (10.5%) | 2 (1.6%) | 7.47 (1.66–33.57) | .009 | 5.15 (0.95–27.89) | .057 |
| Seizure | 5 (3.8%) | 6 (4.7%) | 0.80 (0.24–2.69) | .720 | 0.72 (0.18–2.85) | .641 |
| Pneumonia | 31 (23.3%) | 39 (30.2%) | 0.70 (0.41–1.22) | .210 | 0.61 (0.30–1.24) | .173 |
| Renal failure | 2 (1.5%) | 5 (3.9%) | 0.38 (0.07–1.99) | .250 | 0.24 (0.02–2.45) | .230 |