The human brain is one of the organs without which a person cannot live in principle. As well as the heart and circulatory system. Therefore, care for the health of these centers should be from childhood, trying to avoid injury.
By and large, many dangers and diseases lie in wait for a person’s life. One of the most dangerous threats is brain aneurysm. This disease is expressed in a change in the structure of the artery, namely the expansion of its site. This happens, as a rule, because the walls of a blood vessel for one reason or another become weak and stretch. The danger to the patient is not the very stretching of the vessel, but a decrease in the ability of the walls to resist the force of the blood flow. As a result, the artery ruptures and bleeding begins, which in most cases leads to death. Half of patients after hemorrhage in the brain die immediately, and the rest, if not given proper care, dies from the effects of blood entering the brain.
Aneurysm of the brain occurs in both women and men at any age, although it is believed that women around the age of fifty suffer from this disease more often. Aneurysm of the brain can be either congenital or acquired. In the first case, a child born with a pathology can feel quite normal and develop without deviations. Various diseases of the circulatory system, for example, arterial hypertension or atherosclerosis, usually lead to acquired aneurysm.
Often in medical practice there are cases when the patient does not even suspect that he has an aneurysm. Symptoms can sometimes manifest as headaches and periodic bouts of nausea. If a person suddenly finds it difficult to turn his neck, severe pain in the back and legs is felt during movement, this should certainly alert him, since such signs can indicate serious violations, for example, aneurysm. Of course, most often the rupture of the vessel occurs instantly, without any prerequisites. If the patient does not die immediately, then he may begin a severe attack of headache, vomiting, and then he loses consciousness.
When blood from a ruptured vessel enters the brain tissue, in most cases, in addition to the rigidity of the back, legs and neck, it also causes mild paralysis and complicates the swallowing process. Depending on the location of the gap, various visual disturbances can be observed, for example, such as a split in the eyes, an increase in the diameter of the pupil, etc.
The complexity of the consequences that causes aneurysm of the brain depends primarily on its location and the power of bleeding. A strong jump in intracranial pressure, as a rule, leads to death. Aneurysm can also cause spasms of nearby blood vessels, including the main ones. The result of such complications is usually a decrease in blood flow and, as a result, a disruption of the brain.
It is possible to establish the presence of aneurysm only with the help of specialized equipment in clinics. Typically, a computer or magnetic resonance imaging is prescribed to determine the ailment. With the help of such studies, voids in the blood vessels that indicate aneurysm are detected.
Timely revealed brain aneurysm can be cured. To do this, an operation is performed, during which the damaged walls of the vessels are restored. In this case, muscle tissue is wrapped around the neck of the aneurysm or special brackets are used, with the help of which the integrity of the vessels is restored. Surgical intervention, however, does not guarantee the complete elimination of consequences and complications.