Aneurysm

Aortic Dissection Treatments I. The Search Story When I was little, my aunt had open heart surgery to repair an issue in her aorta. Ever since then I have been fascinated with the human heart, especially the aorta. I used to pretend to be a doctor and walk around the house in a white coat. My aunt would tell me about her surgery, and it always kept me at the edge of my seat. When time came to pick our topics, I naturally leaned towards the aorta. However it was too broad to write one paper on.…

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…

Patients with ADPKD may be at a higher risk of developing thoracic aortic aneurysms. Abdominal aortic aneurysms are not increased among these patients. Pain may also develop for reasons completely unrelated to the underlying disease; thus, abdominal pain in patients with ADPKD may be a diagnostic challenge. In addition to pain, other physical symptoms that patients with early-stage ADPKD may report include fatigue, breathlessness, weakness, and malaise.[24] Hematuria Hematuria frequently is the…

while my brother was lying in the middle of the floor in his own throw up and blood. The paramedics didn't show up fast enough so the puke and blood got into my brothers lungs. Soon after my he was rushed to the E.R, they found out he had a brain aneurysm because of how long he was there and with that stuff in his lungs it put him in a coma. Soon before we knew it . it was almost a month since he was in a coma, and hasn’t had any signs that he could wake up. When my brother woke up he didn't…

A brain aneurysm befalls when a feeble spot in your brain’s arterial wall bulges and blocks with blood. In maximum circumstances, a brain aneurysm causes no symptoms or signs and goes overlooked. In exceptional cases, the brain aneurysm ruptures, discharging blood into the skull and distressing a stroke. When a brain aneurysm fallings-out, the outcome is called a subarachnoid hemorrhage. As per the severity of the hemorrhage, brain destruction or death may be the outcome. Risk Factors Brain…

In summer, 2016, my mom got into a terrible accident due to medical reason. Fortunately, she walked out of it unscratched, which was a miracle. Unfortunately, we found out that she has an aneurysm on the left side of her brain. We consulted a neurosurgeon and admitted her in the hospital for her angiogram. My mom was admitted in the Boulder Community Hospital and I was satisfied with all the care she got in this health care facility. As soon as we walked in the hospital, it was easy to navigate…

Aneurysms of the foot arteries are rare. A case of a true dorsalis pedis artery aneurysm in a 69 years old man with no history of local trauma is presented. Arterial duplex scan findings, intraoperative features, operative procedure and literature review are presented and discussed. Dorsalis pedis artery aneurysms (DPAA), though uncommon, are well recognized and the first clinical presentation is ought to Cuff in 1907, who described a spontaneous aneurysm on the dorsum of the foot of a 53 year…

loved ones eventually. It’s how and when you take them from me when I start to care. Car collisions, sudden illness, brain aneurysms, all the things you can never fully predict. Death, you had never been something I have worried about. You took my great grandpa away three years ago. Yes, it’s sad, but it was inevitable. One of my older brothers friends was taken by a brain aneurysm, countless people by car collisions every day, and to top it off you stole one of my friends with a sudden illness.…

As the red and blue emergency lights emanated from our ambulance during a cold January night, I began to think about the possible medical emergencies (chest pain) that I might encounter upon our arrival. Whether it was an asthma exacerbation, aortic dissection, or costochondritis, I needed to think and prepare for every possibility. However, my thoughts were soon interrupted by my partner, who turned off the sirens and picked up the radio. “Dispatch, this is Rescue three. On scene.” “Copy,…

Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm An aneurysm is a weakened or damaged part of an artery wall that bulges from the normal force of blood pumping through the body. An abdominal aortic aneurysm is an aneurysm that occurs in the lower part of the aorta, the main artery of the body. The major concern with an abdominal aortic aneurysm is that it can enlarge and burst (rupture) or blood can flow between the layers of the wall of the aorta through a tear (aortic dissection). Both of these conditions can…