The term aneurysm It originates from a Greek word that refers to a unusual dilation that takes place in a blood vessel following a degeneration or weakening of the vascular structure . Most commonly aneurysms are those of character arterial that are triggered at the base of the brain or in the aorta .
Despite the existing scientific and medical advances and the studies carried out, it has not yet been possible to determine the exact causes that lead a person to suffer an aneurysm. However, between two of the common reasons are the genetic structure itself because many of them are congenital, are discovered at birth, or various defects in what are the arterial walls.
And that without forgetting that there are a number of factors that what they do is considerably increase the chances of a man or a woman suffering from this pathology. Specifically, we have to make reference to what tobacco consumption is, having high cholesterol levels or also suffering from hypertension.
Keep in mind that, however, aneurysms can occur anywhere in the body where is one artery . Usually, aneurysms do not generate symptom , except that they break and cause bleeding. The CT scans and the magnetic resonances They help detect them.
Similarly, it should be stressed that there is another series of tests that, alone or as a complement to those mentioned above, are used by medical professionals to proceed with the diagnosis and subsequent treatment of the aneurysm. Specifically, among those would be spinal tap, also known as CSF examination, or cerebral angiography.
In the event that they produce symptoms from the compression of certain body areas, it is possible that the affected person suffers from headaches or neck, partially or totally loses vision, suffers lethargy, has a feeling of tiredness, sees his sensitivity diminished and mobility and experience speech problems.
However, another series of symptoms such as nausea or vomiting, an epileptic seizure, irritability, confusion, droopy eyelid, eye pain and also what are the nail cuticles can occur.
A brain aneurysm It can also be detected from an eye exam, since the increase in intracranial pressure causes inflammation in the optic nerve and can cause bleeding in the retina.
To treat a cerebral aneurysm, it is possible that the doctor decide to appeal to the microsurgery (to contain it and prevent it from breaking again) or to the endovascular therapy .
Among the different types of aneurysms, the so-called true aneurysms (which involve all the units that make up the walls of the arteries and against which the blood flow is maintained inside the circulatory structure), the false aneurysms (characterized by being extravascular hematomas, with rupture of the vascular wall), the dissecting aneurysms (the blood enters the artery wall and dissects its layers), the traumatic aneurysms (they occur as a result of a physical lesion in the vascular wall) and the fungal aneurysms (generated by the growth of microorganisms in the vessel wall).
Finally, it should be stressed that sometimes the treatment of an aneurysm causes the appearance of complications such as infection, profuse bleeding or nerve compression.
