Ruptured intracranial aneurysms: The preoperative management and the timing of surgery

The authors review 179 consecutive cases of ruptured intracranial aneurysms: 80 out of the first 101 patients underwent aneurysm surgery in a period ranging from 7 days to 2 weeks following subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH) and patients with all grades of the Hunt and Hess classification were included without discrimination.