How long will I be in recovery after a cerebral angiogram?

In my case it was several hours, went in in the morning, went home early afternoon

@houston13, thank you. That helps a lot since I was only given prep instructions and arrival/procedure times.

Same here as with Houston13. Arrival time was 6:30 a.m. (first group of the day) and discharged at around 3:00 in the afternoon. Stopped by In & Out Burger on the way home, was hungry. Felt 100% upon discharge. This was my 3rd cerebral angiogram. First one was to take a better look of the aneurysm and to then plan for the coiling procedure. The first one was a day in-day out procedure. About 3 hours long. I had them prescribe a little dose of ativan after being admitted to the out patient center. The second cerebral angiogram was done and the coils placed. That involved an overnight stay. The 3rd cerebral angiogram was a check up of the coils that had been placed 6 months post op. I did not need ativan as I knew how it all went and wasn't stressed about it. Good luck. Glad we live at a time where we can fix these things rather than what happened to my grandmother and cousin, which is that the aneurysm burst.

@mkoch I had 2 embolizations, placing a stent in my aneurysm (same procedure as a coil different repair element), I had to have 2 as my first stent did not work as well as expected. Those in general do require an overnight stay as they have to monitor how well the coil or stent is actually working, although in my case I went home the same day but late at night after my first procedure.

I also had around 5 or 6 angiograms, those are same day interventions as they are just imaging, still invasive and similar to an embolization but no foreign objects are installed.

Being followed up with angiograms before and after embolizations is important , my brother lives in Canada and had a ruptured aneurysm that was repaired with a coil, his follow up was with MRAs, 2 months after being checked with the last one his aneurysm bled again, he is lucky to be alive but a second bleed left hm with impairments. He needed an emergency craniotomy to save him.

Don’t be afraid of embolizations and angiograms they are actually fairly low risk interventions, especially compared to the alternatives (craniotomy).