Chapters Transcript Video Rapid Diagnosis and Advanced Neurovascular Care Save Patient with a Rare Brain Aneurysm Imagine the vessels in the brain, the arteries, they are like little tubes, right? So for whatever reason some patients develop a weak spot on this tube and that forms that area to balloon out. So it's like a bubble that forms on the wall of the of the vessel and of course because that's a weak spot that carries a risk of possible rupturing and bleeding to the brain. So there's basically two types of aneurysms, right? There's the ruptured aneurysms, which are the ones that already bled into the brain, it's a very serious emergency type of situation. A lot of times it can be treated through catheters. So we go in and we do a procedure where we basically fill the aneurysm with an embolic device that basically shuts that aneurysm down and so prevents blooding from entering it to prevent it from re-bleeding. So that's one of the types. Sometimes if the aneurys cannot be. Treated by the catheter procedure, then they may require open surgery. The other type of aneurysms are the ones that a lot of times we see in the office or are the ones that we call incidentally found, so unruptured aneurysms. The best situation is this patient sees a specialized physician that specializes in treating aneurysms, so this patient can get the best advice about what needs to do. Incidentally found aneurysms, unruptured aneurysms are not emergencies. Everyone can get a brain aneurysm. Young patients, older patients, but in general are usually patients after 40 years old, so 42, 70, 80 years old, are the most typical ones that you see with a brain aneurysm. The other, uh, it's a little bit more prevalent in women compared to men, but this difference is not, you know, too, uh, too big. And the other thing that is very important because it's the only thing that we can control in terms of like risk factors for developing an aneurysm or even aneurys rupture is high blood pressure and smoking. With the endovascular techniques, these patients can go home actually the next day as long as they're feeling good. There's no problem during the procedure. The patient usually is discharged the next day directly to home. At Baptist Health Miami Neuroscience Institute, we have all the specialties that work together combined to provide the patient the best treatment plan for treatment of their specific aneurysm, the best chance of a good outcome. Created by
