Clinical Feature
The word “aneurysm” comes from the Latin word “aneurysma”, which means dilatation. Aneurysm is an uncharacteristic local dilatation in the wall of a blood vessel, generally an artery, because of a defect, infection or injury. A brain aneurysm is a protuberance or ballooning in a blood vessel in the brain. It frequently looks like a berry dangling on a stem. A brain aneurysm can leak or rupture, triggering bleeding into the brain (hemorrhagic stroke). Cerebral aneurysms can happen at any age, although they are more common in grown-ups than in kids and are marginally more common in females than in males.
Causes
Aneurysms have a multiplicity of reasons including high blood pressure and atherosclerosis, trauma, heredity and abnormal blood flow at the intersection where arteries come together. There are other rare reasons of aneurysms. Tumors and trauma can also cause aneurysms to form. Drug abuse, particularly cocaine, can cause the artery walls to inflame and deteriorate.
Symptoms
The signs and symptoms of an unruptured cerebral aneurysm will partially depend on its size and rate of growth.
• Abrupt, exceptionally severe headache
• Nausea and vomiting
• Rigid neck
• Blurry or double vision
• Sensitivity to light
• Seizure
• A sagging eyelid
• Loss of consciousness
• Confusion
Treatment
Two common …show more content…
Emergency treatment for persons with a ruptured cerebral aneurysm might be required to reinstate deteriorating respiration and decrease abnormally high pressure within the brain. Treatment is essential to prevent the aneurysm from rupturing again. Patients for whom surgery is considered too perilous might be treated by inserting the tip of a catheter into an artery in the groin and advancing it via the blood stream to the location of the aneurysm, where it is used to insert metal coils that prompt clot formation within the
The word “aneurysm” comes from the Latin word “aneurysma”, which means dilatation. Aneurysm is an uncharacteristic local dilatation in the wall of a blood vessel, generally an artery, because of a defect, infection or injury. A brain aneurysm is a protuberance or ballooning in a blood vessel in the brain. It frequently looks like a berry dangling on a stem. A brain aneurysm can leak or rupture, triggering bleeding into the brain (hemorrhagic stroke). Cerebral aneurysms can happen at any age, although they are more common in grown-ups than in kids and are marginally more common in females than in males.
Causes
Aneurysms have a multiplicity of reasons including high blood pressure and atherosclerosis, trauma, heredity and abnormal blood flow at the intersection where arteries come together. There are other rare reasons of aneurysms. Tumors and trauma can also cause aneurysms to form. Drug abuse, particularly cocaine, can cause the artery walls to inflame and deteriorate.
Symptoms
The signs and symptoms of an unruptured cerebral aneurysm will partially depend on its size and rate of growth.
• Abrupt, exceptionally severe headache
• Nausea and vomiting
• Rigid neck
• Blurry or double vision
• Sensitivity to light
• Seizure
• A sagging eyelid
• Loss of consciousness
• Confusion
Treatment
Two common …show more content…
Emergency treatment for persons with a ruptured cerebral aneurysm might be required to reinstate deteriorating respiration and decrease abnormally high pressure within the brain. Treatment is essential to prevent the aneurysm from rupturing again. Patients for whom surgery is considered too perilous might be treated by inserting the tip of a catheter into an artery in the groin and advancing it via the blood stream to the location of the aneurysm, where it is used to insert metal coils that prompt clot formation within the