Table 1.

Patient and aneurysm characteristics.

	FD group	Conventional stents group	Significance (P-Value)
Patients	20	16
Mean age (yrs)	47.1 ± 16.7	55.8 ± 7.3	0.063
Female, n(%)	5 (25%)	1 (6.3%)	0.147
Co-morbidities, n(%)
Hypertension	10 (50%)	11 (68.8%)	0.32
Diabetes	2 (10%)	1 (6.3%)	1
Smoking	8 (40%)	7 (43.8%)	1
Drinking	6 (30%)	3 (18.8%)	0.7
Presentation, n(%)
Headache	9 (45%)	9 (56.2%)
Dizziness	3 (15%)	3 (18.8%)
Brainstem compression	5 (25%)	2 (12.5%)
Stroke	3 (15%)	2 (12.5%)
Mean aneurysm diameter	18.4 ± 8.3	17.3 ± 7.0	0.697
Aneurysm size, n(%)			0.935
Small (<10 mm)	2 (10.5%)	2 (12.5%)
Large (10-25 mm)	13 (68.4%)	10 (62.5%)
Giant (>25 mm)	4 (21.1%)	4 (25%)
Location, n(%)			0.702
BA	2 (10%)	2 (12.5%)
VBA	3 (15%)	1 (6.3%)
VA	15 (75%)	13 (81.3%)
Mean IMH size (mm)	15.5 ± 7.3	17.9 ± 10.0	0.406

FD, flow diverter; BA, basilar artery; VBA, vertebrobasilar artery; VA, vertebral artery; IMH, intramural hematoma.