The 31-year-old based in South Lanarkshire woke up one morning to find that her face was 'all twisted'. She was subsequently ...
AM I going to die today?” It’s a question Amber Ford asks herself daily. For the 31-year-old is living with multiple brain ...
differ from patients who suffer an aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (ASAH) in their presenting symptoms, clinical course, and outcomes. Rupture of an aneurysm is typically associated with ...
Brain aneurysm patient Elizabeth Presson had an 'abnormally bad headache' that she put down to the stresses of parenting ...
The sensitivity of SAH detection by computed tomography approaches 100% within the first 6 h. Cerebral angiography remains the gold standard to demonstrate the ruptured aneurysm, although computed ...
A 23-year-old woman presents to the emergency department (ED) with a sudden onset of a thunderclap headache that she describes as the “worst headache of her life.” ...
a rupture in the neck region can produce a blood clot that may travel to the brain. This could obstruct blood flow and result ...
A brain aneurysm is an area of weakness in a brain blood vessel that over time can grow larger and thinner. Aneurysms are dangerous because they can grow and eventually rupture allowing blood to leak ...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has tagged Medtronic’s recall of certain Pipeline Vantage embolisation devices as Class I following reports of four patient deaths.
This leads to an extremely serious condition known as a subarachnoid haemorrhage ... people are affected by brain aneurysms, but only one in 15,000 experience a rupture each year.