Aspiration and Fibrin Glue Injection or AFGI

Aspiration and Fibrin Glue Injection or AFGI is a procedure used as a treatment of Tarlov cysts by first aspirating the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) from the Tarlov cyst(s) and then injecting fibrin glue as a sealant in an attempt to occlude the neck of the cyst and prevent CSF from further refilling the cyst. This procedure is performed by an Interventional Neuroradiologist, and sometimes with the assistance of a Neurosurgeon to guide the Neuroradiologist via CT guided fluoroscopy.

This abbreviation is not a standardized medical abbreviation, but one that patients have used to abbreviate; it has also been called FGI, but that abbreviation is too abbreviated in that it eliminates the first part of the procedure, the aspiration of the spinal fluid, before fibrin glue is injected.