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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Facing not one but TWO aneurysms, Sandilands has shared the difficult reason his brain condition is being monitored rather ...

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 ...

Australian radio host Kyle Sandilands announced on air yesterday that he has a brain aneurysm and needs urgent brain surgery. Typically an aneurysm occurs when a part of the wall of an artery (a type ...

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 ...