A fusiform aneurysm causes the artery to bulge or balloon on all sides. This type is less common than a saccular aneurysm, which causes a bulge on one side of the artery. An aneurysm is a weakness in ...

A mesh plug normally used to treat one type of brain aneurysm is also effective when dealing with another type, a new study says. Aneurysms are bulges in blood vessels that can cause a ...

Coronary artery aneurysm (CAA) is when a section of the coronary artery widens to more than 1.5 times the size of nearby sections. It can lead to a heart attack, rupture of the affected artery, and ...

People who developed a type of aneurysm with a cervical artery dissection (a tear in the inner lining of the neck artery wall), a known cause of stroke, particularly in young adults, did not have an ...

REPORTER WHO DIED SUDDENLY LAST WEEK COVERING THE WORLD CUP IN QATAR SUFFERED AN AORTIC ANEURYSM. HERE TO EXPLAIN IS DR. DANIEL KURITZKES, CHIEF OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES AT BRIGHAM AND WOMEN’S HOSPITAL.

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Every year, thousands of families across Gujarat are left shocked by an unexpected and often devastating event: a brain haemorrhage, medically known as a haemorrhagic stroke. Unlike the more common ...

About five of every 100 people have a ballooning, weakened artery in their brain called an aneurysm, though the vast majority will never know it. Still, in the rare case that an aneurysm pops, or ...