Abstract
Aneurysm occlusion rate after clipping is higher than after endovascular treatment. However, a certain percentage of incompletely clipped aneurysms remains. Presurgical selection of the proper aneurysm clips could potentially reduce the rate of incomplete clippings caused by inadequate clip geometry. The aim of the present study was to assess whether preoperative 3D image-based simulation allows for preoperative selection of a proper aneurysm clip for complete occlusion in individual cases. Patients harboring ruptured or unruptured cerebral aneurysms prior to surgical clipping were analyzed. CT angiography images were transferred to a 3D surgical-planning station (Dextroscope®) with imported models of 58 aneurysm clips. Intracranial vessels and aneurysms were segmented and the virtual aneurysm clips were placed at the aneurysm neck. Operating surgeons had information about the selected aneurysm clip, and patients underwent clipping. Intraoperative clip selection was documented and aneurysm occlusion rate was assessed by postoperative digital subtraction angiography. Nineteen patients were available for final analysis. In all patients, the most proximal clip at the aneurysm neck was the preselected clip. All aneurysms except one were fully occluded, as assessed by catheter angiography. One aneurysm had a small neck remnant that did not require secondary surgery and was occluded 15 months after surgery. 3D image-based preselection of a proper aneurysm clip can be translated to the operating room and avoids intraoperative clip selection. The associated occlusion rate of aneurysms is high.
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Introduction
The main aim of surgical treatment of ruptured or unruptured aneurysms is (i) complete aneurysm occlusion to avoid hemorrhage from an aneurysm residual or recurrent aneurysm and (ii) ideal patient outcome, i.e., the lowest possible treatment-associated morbidity. To achieve these aims, several technical improvements have been implemented over the last decade. These include less invasive craniotomies and retractorless approaches to reduce approach-related morbidity and augmented reality techniques to optimize the surgical approach angle and trajectory to an aneurysm [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10]. Intraoperative methods to soften complex aneurysms, such as adenosine-induced temporary cardiac arrest or rapid cardiac pacing, allow for improved aneurysm control and clip placement [11,12,13,14]. Furthermore, microprobe Doppler sonography and especially indocyanine green (ICG) fluorescence video angiography provide for the intraoperative assessment of the completeness of aneurysm occlusion and exclusion of parent vessel blood flow reduction by occlusion or stenosis [15,16,17,18,19]. Finally, intraoperative electrophysiological monitoring of motor-evoked potentials allows for an online assessment of the functional integrity of motor pathways [20].
While these techniques improve several aspects of aneurysm clipping, the selection of the aneurysm clip or multiple clips with ideal geometry for occlusion of a given aneurysm remains an issue regarding the intraoperative spatial sense of the operating surgeon but is a crucial aspect of aneurysm occlusion. Therefore, preoperative selection of an ideal clip for aneurysm occlusion might improve surgical clipping.
A presurgical selection of the ideal clip could have several advantages. First, presurgical selection could identify the ideal clip for aneurysm occlusion, thereby improving occlusion and avoiding intraoperative changes of potentially suboptimal clips. Furthermore, medical device regulations increasingly prohibit clip resterilization and require single-packed sterile aneurysm clips, which impedes surgeons’ ability to try aneurysm clips of various geometries to identify the one providing the best occlusion.
Presurgical clip selection could overcome these problems. Modern 3D image-processing techniques enable a selection of the ideal clip geometry for an aneurysm prior to surgery. The present study assessed whether presurgical clip selection using a 3D planning system is feasible to choose an adequate clip for aneurysm occlusion.
Material and methods
Patients and evaluations
Over a 1-year period, patients harboring ruptured and unruptured intracranial aneurysms planned for surgical clip occlusion after interdisciplinary discussion and available for preoperative planning were assessed prospectively. Prior to surgery, patients’ routine imaging data were uploaded to a 3D planning workstation (Dextroscope®, Bracco Diagnostics, Monroe Township, USA) (Fig. 1) and the ideal clip geometry for aneurysm occlusion was assessed with the surgeon performing the clipping. The preselected clip was documented and surgical clipping performed in a routine fashion. After surgery, the clips used were compared to the preselected ones and the cases were rated as a fit (preselected aneurysm clip type used) or non-fit (preselected aneurysm clip not used). The quality of aneurysm occlusion was rated by a routinely performed postoperative digital subtraction angiography.
Patient imaging
A computer tomography angiography (CTA) was acquired as a routine imaging diagnostic prior to surgery in all patients. Patients underwent scanning in a Toshiba Aquillion S32 CT scanner (Toshiba Medical Systems GmbH Deutschland, Neuss, Germany) to obtain 3D CTA datasets, and 75 ml of contrast agent (Imeron® 400, Bracco Imaging Deutschland GmbH, Konstanz, Germany) was injected at a rate of 3 ml/s. CT scanning was started when the contrast agent bolus was detected in the extracranial internal carotid artery. CT data were acquired with a slice thickness of 0.5 mm from the foramen magnum to the vertex.
Additionally, all but 4 patients were diagnosed with a presurgical digital subtraction angiography (DSA) (Philips Integris Allura, Philips Deutschland, Hamburg, Germany). In 10 cases of unruptured aneurysms, a magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) (Siemens MAGNETOM Skyra or MAGNETOM Trio, Siemens Healthcare GmbH, Erlangen, Germany) TOF-3D dataset with a slice thickness of 0.5 mm was available.
Postoperatively, the clipping results were evaluated by digital subtraction angiography for completeness of aneurysm occlusion and aneurysm remnants.
Clip imaging
From a set of aneurysm clips, 58 types—49 L-Clips (Peter Lazic, Tuttlingen, Germany) and nine Yasargil clips (Aesculap, B. Braun, Tuttlingen, Germany)—were scanned in a closed status using the same CT scanner mentioned above and exported as DICOM datasets. CT data was acquired with a thickness of 0.5 mm (X-ray tube current 150mAs, KVP 120)(Fig. 2).
3D surgical planning and clip preselection
Surgical 3D planning was carried out with the Dextroscope®, a stereoscopic visualization and planning workstation described previously [21]. The Dextroscope® 3D-planning station (Volume Interactions Ltd., Singapore) is a virtual reality environment in which the operator reaches with both hands behind a mirror into a computer-generated stereoscopic 3D object projection to move and manipulate objects in real-time with natural 3D hand movements. Software tools for data loading, 3D reconstruction, segmentation, thresholding, coloring, and transparency modulation are available in the system. Manual segmentation tools allow the 3D delineation of structures that cannot be segmented on the basis of grayscale thresholds.
After uploading patient CTA and where available MRA imaging data and the volumetric representations of the virtual clip collection as DICOM data, 3D volume rendering was followed by data co-registration (CTA and MRA) and fusion. The arteries and the bone of the skull were segmented as single objects and colored. The aneurysms and parent vessels were segmented from CTA data, and the closed aneurysm clips were virtually positioned over the aneurysm necks (Fig. 3). Various clipping scenarios were assessed using the clip collection. However, neither the opening nor closing of the clips nor tissue deformation could be simulated. The most suitable clip for aneurysm size, shape, and approach in virtual reality was chosen.
Additionally, voxel-editing tools allowed for a simulated craniotomy. A computer-generated crosswire simulated the focal point of a microscope and a magnification tool simulating the microscopic view into the surgical field for further planning.
Aneurysm treatment and postoperative imaging control
The type of preselected clip was recommended to the operating surgeon prior to the surgical case. Aneurysm clipping was performed in a standard microsurgical fashion, using intraoperative micro-Doppler analysis and ICG angiography. The type and number of clips used intraoperatively for aneurysm occlusion were documented. All patients underwent routine postoperative digital subtraction angiography for assessment of aneurysm occlusion and parent vessel patency. Aneurysm occlusion was classified according to a modified Montreal scale in classes I–III, where class I is a complete occlusion, class II a neck remnant, and class III an aneurysm remnant [22]. Any clip-associated parent vessel stenosis was documented.
Results
Figure 4 summarizes all relevant results.
Patients, aneurysms, clip preselection
Twenty-five patients harboring 27 intracranial aneurysms were analyzed. Fourteen patients had subarachnoid hemorrhages from ruptured aneurysms; two of those patients carried another unruptured aneurysm, and 11 additional patients carried unruptured aneurysms. Aneurysm locations were the internal carotid artery (ICA; n = 2), anterior communicating artery (AComA; n = 7), anterior cerebral artery (ACA; n = 1), pericallosal artery (PA; n = 4), middle cerebral artery (MCA; n = 10), posterior communicating artery (PComA; n = 2), and tip of the basilar artery (BA; n = 1). All aneurysms were analyzed for the ideal clip prior to surgical treatment. For a single complex MCA aneurysm, no clear recommendation could be generated from the presurgical analysis. Clips were preselected for all remaining aneurysms. Three-dimensional planning did not change the treatment decision for clipping in any case. During surgery, the preselected clips were not available in seven cases. Therefore, the 19 remaining aneurysms, characterized in Table 1, were analyzed.
Aneurysm clipping
The preselected clips were used in all analyzed cases. Thirteen of 19 aneurysms required a solitary clip for aneurysm occlusion. For the remaining six, the preselected clip was used together with additional clips. In two of those cases, an intraoperative aneurysm rupture occurred, and clipping of the rupture site was necessary. However, in those cases, the preselected clip was used as most proximal clip at the aneurysm neck in addition to the more distal clips at the rupture site. In another two cases, a mini clip was used in addition to the preselected clip to occlude a small remaining dog ear. Concerning other cases in which additional clips were used, in one, a second clip was placed parallel but distal to the preselected clip as a safety measure, as the occlusion of clip branches of the first clip was interpreted as incomplete as a consequence of aneurysm wall rigidity. In the remaining case, an additional unplanned aneurysm was clipped.
Other than four intraoperative aneurysm ruptures, no further intraoperative complications occurred.
Aneurysm occlusion and parent vessel patency
All cases underwent postoperative digital subtraction angiography. Aneurysm occlusion was classified as Montreal class I, II, and III in 18, 1, and 0 aneurysms, respectively (Fig. 4). Thereby, the rate of incomplete occlusions with aneurysm remnants was 5%. No clip-associated parent vessel occlusion or stenosis was detected in any postoperative imaging. The persisting small dog ear in one case was followed up and occluded spontaneously, as detected during a routine follow-up digital subtraction angiography at 15 months after surgery.
Discussion
The current study analyzed the feasibility of presurgical selection of an adequate clip for occlusion of a cerebral aneurysm with the use of a 3D planning system. The results show that presurgical clip selection could be translated to the operating room in all cases, i.e., preselected clips were used as the most proximal clip at the aneurysm neck. Aneurysm occlusion was complete in all but one case, as evaluated by postoperative angiography.
While the rate of aneurysm remnants after microsurgical clipping of cerebral aneurysms is lower than after endovascular treatment, a certain rate of incomplete clipping remains. These aneurysm remnants are associated with a risk of rupture or ameurysm regrowth, and retreatment is necessary in a subgroup of patients. The rate of incomplete clippings ranges between 1.6 and 42%, and certain risk factors for incomplete clipping have been identified as (i) aneurysm location and an (ii) aneurysm size above 12 mm [23,24,25,26,27,28,29]. Microsurgical clipping techniques including bipolar remodeling target to reduce aneurysm remnants [30]. Intraoperative techniques such as ICG videoangiography or catheter angiography aim to immediately assess aneurysm occlusion and allow for clip correction and improvement of occlusion [16, 31]. In addition to intraoperative assessment, presurgical planning and simulation could improve aneurysm occlusion, and various approaches are in use[32].
Different approaches have been used to simulate aneurysm clipping using virtual or physical models. Futami et al. tried to simulate aneurysm clipping with a single straight clip and assessed the associated risk of an aneurysm remnant [33]. Using 3D CT angiography, a virtual intraoperative view was simulated and a straight line was traced along the aneurysm neck to simulate clipping. Subsequently, images were rotated and aneurysm remnants identified in 42% of virtual cases; a strong correlation between predicted remnants and intraoperative remnants was visualized by endoscopy. Wong et al. used the same approach as the present study (i.e., presurgical Dextroscope® planning) but did not assess whether the planned virtual clips could be translated to intraoperative situations and lead to sufficient aneurysm occlusion [34]. Our present series shows that virtual selection of a proper clip translates to intraoperative situations and potentially improves aneurysm occlusion. A deficit of this virtual 3D imaging-based approach is the missing simulation of vessel and aneurysm deformation after clip application. While a deformation simulation would be desirable, it is not necessarily required for an adequate simulation, as shown by our series.
A further approach to presurgical clipping simulation taking aneurysm deformation into account is the use of 3D-printed aneurysm models prior to surgery [35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44]. These printed models represent an attempt to simulate aneurysm clipping with increasing complexity, adding blood flow simulation and aneurysm pulsation in some studies. These models fulfil two purposes as follows: (i) individual case-based planning and (ii) simulation for overall surgical training of aneurysm clipping.
However, while aneurysm wall deformation can certainly be simulated by complex models, the quality of deformation simulation by artificial materials remains unclear. The disadvantages of these 3D-printed models are the time and costs of preparation, reducing their feasibility for individual presurgical planning applications, especially in emergency situations of ruptured aneurysms. Therefore, these models certainly carry a high potential for overall surgeon training in aneurysm clipping but are less useful for individual planning.
Furthermore, our concept of 3D virtual planning does not allow to include aneurysm reconstruction techniques as bipolar remodeling [30] as any changes in configuration of the aneurysm cannot be simulated prior to surgery. The intraoperative rupture of an aneurysm can be associated with an unplanned change in configuration; however, the location for clip application, i.e. the aneurysm neck usually remains unchanged by a rupture of the dome, and therefore, presurgical planning for a neck clip remains valid.
The advantage of our present approach is the ease of use, the use of available imaging information for most cases (avoiding additional imaging), and the availability as an ad hoc planning method without costly or time-consuming preparation.
A limitation of the present study is the rather small number of aneurysms analyzed after presurgical 3D planning. Furthermore, most aneurysms assessed are located in the anterior circulation and complex posterior circulation aneurysms where presurgical 3D clip preselection might be even more helpful are not sufficiently presented.
In conclusion, 3D virtual preselection of proper aneurysm clips allows a clip geometry to be selected for the occlusion of individual cerebral aneurysms. This clip selection can be translated to the operating room, leading to a high rate of cerebral aneurysm occlusion without remnants. The system does not require time-consuming additional preparation and is useful even in emergency situations of ruptured cerebral aneurysms.
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Schwandt, E., Kockro, R., Kramer, A. et al. Presurgical selection of the ideal aneurysm clip by the use of a three-dimensional planning system. Neurosurg Rev 45, 2887–2894 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10143-022-01794-4
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