Millenium Health Tips

Is it anerurisma brain?
Brain aneurysm is a disorder of the brain arteries, where there are weaknesses in the arterial lining, forming a bulge or lump-like balloons. Lump artery has a thinner layer compared with normal blood vessels, so that one day may rupture suddenly.

Anyone can suffer aneurysma?
In general strike adults two or more decades. Percentage reaches 5% of all adults. By comparison between the aneurysm rupture (rupture) and aneurysm rupture is not 5:3.

What causes aneurysms?
The main cause of aneurysms is still controversial. However, when compared with normal blood vessels, the aneurysm was found an abnormality of the lining of blood vessels consists of three layers: the layer of the tunica intima, media and adventitia. Aneurysm is thinning at the tunica media and tunica intima becomes more elastic this result in weakness in the blood vessels in the aneurysm so that blood vessels form a bulge under the pressure of the blood vessels. Aneurysm is estimated to cause congenital abnormalities, hypertension, embolism, infection, and trauma.

Aneurysm What symptoms?
Symptoms of aneurysms that have not been broken or intact (unruptur aneurysm) is very rarely found. Therefore difficult to find papa aneurysm patients with aneurysms that were still intact, but was found incidentally during radiology examinations performed for other diseases or during medical check up. Symptoms are felt more often caused due to aneurysm rupture, a severe headache that comes suddenly, convulsions, stiffness in the neck to decrease in consciousness. But some symptoms can be a warning (warning sign) of aneurysms, namely: the paralysis of the foot and hand movements, vision problems, the eyelids can not open all of a sudden, pain in the face, headache, or symptoms resembling the symptoms of a stroke.

How to find or diagnose the aneurysm?
Aneurysms can be diagnosed with certainty by using angiography, the examination of blood vessels using a catheter / tube is inserted into a vein and given a dye (contrast). Can also be found by using CT scan or MRI. The best thing is to angiography.

How aneurysm treatment?
with surgical intervention and intervention radiology techniques, depending on the size, shape and location of a brain aneurysm. Surgical clipping technique, using a pincer clip aneurysms aneurysm neck area. While intervention radiology techniques is to use a balloon catheter and insert or coil which can clog the aneurysm.

How prognosis aneurysms?
The prognosis is an estimate of healing a disease. The prognosis depends on the type of aneurysm, aneurysm (rupture or unruptur), aneurysm shape, location, time and handling time of the patient’s condition treatment (age, clinical symptoms, awareness and the presence of other diseases such as heart). The principle is found faster healing aneurysms have a good chance, therefore, routine medical examination is recommended