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. 2021 Nov 6;45(2):1233–1253. doi: 10.1007/s10143-021-01672-5

Table 1.

Clinical scores determining IA risk of rupture or growth (adapted from Greving et al. [28], Etminan et al. [18], and Backes et al. [1])

PHASES score [28] UIAT score [18] ELAPSS score [1]
Aneurysm - Size of the aneurysm (< 7.0 mm, 7.0–9.9 mm, 10.0–19.9 mm, ≥ 20.0 mm) - Maximum diameter (≤ 3.9 mm, 4.0–6.9 mm, 7.0–12.9 mm, 13.0–24.9 mm, ≥ 25.0 mm) - Size of the aneurysm (1.0–2.9 mm, 3.0–4.9 mm, 5.0–6.9 mm, 7.0–9.9 mm, ≥ 10.0 mm)
- Site of IA (ICA, MCA, ACA/Pcom/posterior) - Location (BasA bifurcation, vertebral/basilar artery, AcomA or PcomA) - Location of the IA (ICA/ACA/Acom, MCA, Pcom/posterior)

- Morphology (irregularity or lobulation, size ratio > 3 or aspect ratio > 1.6)

- IA growth on serial imaging

- IA de novo formation on serial imaging

- Contralateral steno-occlusive vessel disease

- Shape of the IA (regular or irregular)
Patient - Age (< or ≥ 70 years) - Age (< 40 years, 40–60 years, 61–70 years, 71–80 years, > 80 years) - Age (≤ or > 60 years)

- Early SAH from another IA (yes/no)

- Population (North American, European (other than Finnish), Japanese, Finnish)

- Hypertension (yes/no)

- Risk factor incidence (previous SAH from a different IA, familial IA or SAH, Japanese/Finnish/Inuit ethnicity, current cigarette smoking, hypertension, APKD, current drug and/or alcohol abuse)

- Earlier SAH (yes/no)

- Population (North American, China, Europe (other than Finland), Japan, Finland)

- Clinical symptoms related to unruptured IA (cranial nerve deficit, clinical or radiological mass effect, thromboembolic events from the IA, epilepsy)

- Reduced quality of life due to fear of rupture

- Aneurysm multiplicity

- Life expectancy due to chronic and/or malignant diseases (< 5 years, 5–10 years, < 10 years)

- Comorbid diseases (neurocognitive disorder, coagulopathies, thrombophilic diseases, psychiatric disorder)

Treatment

- Age-related risk (< 40 years, 40–60 years, 61–70 years, 71–80 years, > 80 years)

- Aneurysm size-related risk (< 6.0 mm, 6.0–10.0 mm, 10.1–20.0 mm, > 20.0 mm)

- Aneurysm complexity-related risk (high/low)

- Intervention-related risk (constant)

ACA anterior cerebral artery, AcomA anterior communicating artery, APKD autosomal-polycystic kidney disease, BasA basilar artery, IA intracranial aneurysm, ICA internal carotid artery, MCA middle cerebral artery, Pcom posterior communicating artery, SAH subarachnoid hemorrhage