SNIS Late Breaking: Visualization of the human intracranial vasculature and intracranial implants using microangioscopy

Late-breaking conference abstract reporting early first-in-human use of the MicroAngioscope as an adjunct to conventional angiography across multiple Canadian centers, describing successful delivery and direct visualization with no reported procedural vessel injuries.

Publication: Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery 16(Suppl 1):A267.1-A267 (July 2024).
Conference: SNIS 21st Annual Meeting Abstracts.

Reported highlights:
- Technology: coherent fiber bundle-based MicroAngioscope designed to be sized and flexible for intracranial use.
- Early experience: first 8 cases reported across multiple centers in Canada (special authorization described).
- Use cases included carotid web stenting, flow diverter aneurysm treatment (with or without adjunctive coiling), venous sinus stenting, intrasaccular embolization of a venous diverticulum, and delayed assessment of a previously treated pseudoaneurysm.
- Reported outcome: device delivered and visualization achieved in all cases, with no reported dissection or perforation; cases completed without reported thromboembolic events and patients neurologically unchanged.

Conference Abstract, First-in-human, Early experience

Neurointervention, Intracranial vasculature, Intracranial implants, Carotid web, Flow diversion, Venous sinus stenting, Intrasaccular embolization

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