We are familiar with heart attack stroke and cardiac arrest as fatal heart conditions but there are many other conditions that require our attention such as aortic aneurysm Let us know about aortic an ...

The study found that a device called a Woven EndoBridge (WEB) is equally effective for both types of aneurysms. A common treatment is the placement of tiny platinum coils into the aneurysm, but ...

Medically reviewed by Anju Goel, MD A brain aneurysm (cerebral aneurysm) is an abnormally bulging and weakened area of an artery in your brain. If it ruptures (bursts), it may cause a stroke and brain ...

University of Utah researchers believe inflammation starts a months-long process that increases risk of aneurysm rupture.

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 ...

Type 4RL: The reverse of type 3RL, which means that a major part of the aneurysm is in the left atrium, with the smaller portion in the right atrium. Type 5: The bulge extends equally into both atria.

Abdominal aortic aneurysms can happen anywhere below the diaphragm. The intrarenal area of the abdomen, just below the kidneys, is one of the most common places to develop an abdominal aneurysm.

Among those are unruptured intracranial aneurysm on the cerebral artery, blister-like lesions that are prone to rupture and affect more than 160 million people around the world.