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Intravenous thrombolysis (IVT) seems to be relatively safe for acute ischemic stroke patients who have even larger-sized saccular unruptured intracranial aneurysms (UIAs), a Finnish study suggests. "I ...

Figure 1. A 49-year-old woman underwent a diagnostic workup for recurrent headaches. Computed tomography suggested the presence of an incidental aneurysm of the left internal carotid artery. This ...

Clot-busting drugs may be safe for certain stroke patients with brain aneurysms that haven't ruptured, researchers say. An aneurysm is a bulge in the wall of a blood vessel. In the new study, patients ...

In a case–control study published recently in Acta Neurologica Scandinavica, 38 of 51 (74.5%) patients with saccular intracranial aneurysm (SIA) and migraine reported remission or reduced frequency of ...

Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science (CBS) in Japan have discovered a set of related mutations that lead to intracranial aneurysms—weakened blood vessels in the brain that can burst at ...

Jets of blood beat against the cigar-shaped aneurysm pressing on Ursula Spear’s brain stem. The bulging artery was inoperable, one set of doctors pronounced — and likely to eventually burst and kill ...

About five of every 100 people have a ballooning, weakened artery in their brain called an aneurysm, though the vast majority will never know it. Still, in the rare case that an aneurysm pops, or ...