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Brain Aneurysms

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Cerebral aneurysms are focal dilations of blood vessel walls that can pouch outwards and compress adjacent structures or rupture and bleed, causing a subarachnoid hemorrhage. Such a hemorrhage can cause symptoms ranging from mild headache to coma, and since an aneurysm that has rupture is at high risk of rupturing again, much emphasis is placed on treating them. Below is an overview of the epidemiology, clinical signs and symptoms, diagnosis and management of cerebral aneurysms.

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  1. Department of Neurosurgery, Methodist Neurological Institute, Houston, TX, USA

    Yi Jonathan Zhang MD

  2. Department of Neurosurgery, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, USA

    Virendra Desai MD, Orlando Diaz MD, Richard P. Klucznik MD & Gavin Britz MD

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  1. Neurosurgery/Radiology, Brigham and Women's Medical Hospita Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Abhishek Agrawal

  2. Department of Neurosurgery, Methodist Neurological Institute, Houston, Texas, USA

    Gavin Britz

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Zhang, Y.J., Desai, V., Diaz, O., Klucznik, R.P., Britz, G. (2015). Brain Aneurysms. In: Agrawal, A., Britz, G. (eds) Emergency Approaches to Neurosurgical Conditions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10693-9_8

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