“A clap of thunder in a still sky“, “the bomb explodes inside the skull“… Even the most powerful images are insufficient to describe the drama, both brutal and unexpected, that a ruptured brain aneurysm presents. About 6,000 people are killed in France every year. Half will be treated in time, the others will die before reaching the hospital. What causes this phenomenon? Can we prevent this?
“An aneurysm is like a hernia on the inner tube of a bicycle. The wall of the intracranial artery expands abnormally, leading to the formation of a blood sac that can rupture under the combined effects of blood pressure and the fragility of the arterial wall.“, explains Professor Pierre Amarenko, neurologist at Bichat Hospital (Paris) and president of the Association Vaincre l’AVC.
Silent aneurysm
Without knowing it, many people are carriers of these defects, which arise during life. “About 2 million people in France…
Source: Le Figaro
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