“I got a second chance at life — I want to take full advantage of that,” says Sabirah Burt, 19 ...

There is substantial international variation in mortality rates after treatment for abdominal aortic aneurysm, or enlargement of the aorta. A BJS (British Journal of Surgery) study that compared ...

The use of keyhole surgery to repair ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm is both clinically and cost effective and should be adopted more widely, concludes a randomised trial published by The BMJ today ...

Patients who have undergone surgery to repair an aortic aneurysm related to having a bicuspid aortic valve have a low risk of future aneurysm events even if participating in endurance exercise, a new ...

Open surgery: Neurosurgeons make an incision in the skull and then place a metal clip over the aneurysm to treat it. Endovascular surgery: Neurosurgeons access an artery (typically in the wrist or ...

SUCCESSFUL excision of formidable vascular lesions, with replacement by a graft or prosthesis, has prompted surgeons to attack acute catastrophic vascular emergencies with increasing vigor during the ...

Researchers are encouraged by study results that they hope can reduce the risks associated with brain surgery for aneurysm where the patient is awake. In a first time study published in the August ...

An aortocaval fistula is a rare complication of an abdominal aortic aneurysm that requires immediate surgical repair. Doctors can choose to treat it with either open or endovascular surgery. An ...

A 62-year-old man survived a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm after four hospitals declined surgery. Doctors at Yatharth ...

Angela Langlois first experienced a bleed on her brain in 2020 "It just felt like a ticking time bomb, always on my mind." Back in 2020, 45-year-old Angela Langlois suffered a bleed on her brain. She ...

When an aneurysm occurs in the chest (above your diaphragm) it's called a thoracic aortic aneurysm. Thoracic aortic aneurysms are classified based on which part of the aorta is abnormal: While your ...