News tagged with ruptured aneurysms
A ruptured aorta needn't be a death sentence, survivors say
John Ritter was working in a Burbank studio on the set of his TV sitcom. Aaron Roberts was cooling his heels in a hotel room outside of Chicago after a business meeting. Exactly four years separated the days when two very ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Feb 08, 2011 |
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UNC surgeons pioneer new approach to aneurysms: Go through the nose
(PhysOrg.com) -- Dr. Anand V. Germanwala and Dr. Adam M. Zanation have published a paper describing a surgery they performed that is believed to be the first reported clipping of a ruptured brain aneurysm through a patient's ...
Jan 13, 2011 |
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The Medical Minute: So you have an aneurysm... Now what?
Technically speaking, an aneurysm is a dilation, or an enlargement, of a blood vessel to at least 50 percent beyond its normal diameter. So if a blood vessel is normally one inch wide, it is considered an aneurysm when it ...
Sep 09, 2009 |
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Study Finds Low Risk in Treating Previously Coiled Aneurysm
(PhysOrg.com) -- The risks associated with treating a recurrent or residual brain aneurysm that was initially treated by endovascular coiling are low, according to a multicenter study led by researchers at ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Aug 20, 2009 |
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Long-term survival from abdominal aortic aneurysm repair improving
Long-term survival for patients undergoing surgical repair of intact abdominal aortic aneurysms has improved in recent decades, according to a Swedish study reported in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jul 06, 2009 |
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Minimally invasive stroke treatment produces better patient outcomes than surgical operation
While minimally invasive coil treatments for those with a ruptured brain aneurysm have proved to be a more effective technique than traditional surgical operation in selected patients, the superior procedure is drastically ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 29, 2009 |
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Aneurysms don't occur earlier in second generation
People whose parents or aunts and uncles have had a brain aneurysm are more likely to have one themselves, indicating that genetic risk factors passed down by generation are responsible. Prior studies had suggested that ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Feb 23, 2009 |
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