Don't sing too high, be careful of the rupture of cerebral vascular aneurysm! Time bomb! Aneurysms are especially dangerous in the brain.
Aneurysm is a balloon-shaped local protrusion formed by the uneven pressure on the arterial wall under the long-term impact of blood flow. It may grow in the arteries of the whole body, most commonly in the brain, chest and abdomen, especially in the brain. Like an untimely bomb, you can hardly feel its existence at ordinary times, but once it explodes, the situation is often critical.
In particular, when cerebral aneurysm ruptures and blood flows into the subarachnoid space of spiders, it will form a hemorrhagic stroke, and about 1 patients can't even be sent to the emergency department for treatment.
Embolization of aneurysm by minimally invasive brain catheter surgery
Dr. Su Yichang, neurosurgery department of Guotai General Hospital, introduced that aneurysm is a bulging lesion caused by local wall lesions of cerebral artery. Once it breaks, it will cause cerebral hemorrhage and increase brain pressure, which will easily lead to acute hydrocephalus. If the cerebral hemorrhage is serious, the patient will fall into coma and need immediate treatment to avoid death or vegetative state. For this female patient, fortunately, minimally invasive brain catheter surgery was used for aneurysm embolization, which avoided the risk of brain surgery and recovered well.
In the past, surgical craniotomy was used to clamp the aneurysm, which often caused great psychological burden to patients and their families. At present, minimally invasive neurovascular intervention (or minimally invasive brain catheter surgery) is a kind of surgery developed by combining minimally invasive and catheter technology. The surgical method is to puncture the skin from the groin of the patient whose wound is less than 1cm, and put the catheter into the artery for surgical embolization. Patients can achieve therapeutic effect without traditional brain opening.
Minimally invasive brain catheter surgery integrates medical equipment in compound room operating room.
The application scope of minimally invasive brain catheter surgery includes: hemorrhagic encephalopathy (aneurysm, arterial malformation), ischemic encephalopathy (acute stroke, chronic cerebrovascular occlusion), head and neck tumor embolization (preoperative embolization of intracranial and extracranial tumors), and others (arteriovenous bifurcation, spontaneous brain pressure increase).
Minimally invasive brain catheter surgery for cerebral vascular aneurysm rupture integrates the medical equipment of compound room operating room and improves the stability and accuracy of the operation. (Photo courtesy of Guotai Hospital) In order to improve the stability and accuracy of surgery, Guotai General Hospital introduced a mixed operating room, which integrates hardware and software equipment such as angiography, surgical navigation, 3D high-order image processing and real-time video system. Patients can complete imaging examination and minimally invasive (or traditional surgery) treatment at the same time in the operating room, and can immediately evaluate the effect, which reduces the risk of patients moving between different examination rooms, operating rooms and cardiac catheterization rooms and improves the operability.
Matters needing attention in daily health care of patients with aneurysm
Dr. Su Yichang reminded that if there are three high-risk groups such as hyperlipidemia and hypertension, as well as patients with known aneurysms, in addition to taking medicine on time, they should also avoid being too excited and singing high notes and quarreling at night, have a light diet and eat more fruits and vegetables. If you have hemorrhagic stroke symptoms such as severe headache, stiff neck, nausea and vomiting, or ischemic stroke symptoms such as facial distortion, hemiplegia, dizziness, dysphagia and slurred speech, you should seek medical attention as soon as possible. Patients should also continue to follow the image to observe whether the aneurysm is enlarged or deformed. Once you find a change, you should seek medical advice immediately.