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Clearly, the best to combat this disease is prevention. In fact, many cases are conditioned by hereditary factors, but even here there is a notable decrease in risk when carrying out measures to help preserve the health of the arteries:

Improve your diet. We suggest that only 30% or less of total food consumed is of animal origin, giving preference to fat-free meat, fish or poultry, and increasing the amount of cereals, fruits and vegetables.

Avoid being overweight. It is known that people who maintain ideal body weight better control cholesterol levels and blood pressure, so that the force must support the bloodstream is reduced. Read the rest of this entry »

Unfortunately, the rupture of the aneurysm is an emergency that has high mortality rate, as bleeding from an artery is always intense and effectiveness of care by the specialist in vascular surgery angiologist (from the bloodstream), depend the size of the lesion, time to transfer the patient to the emergency and location of the lesion, as statistics show that the hopes of survival are lower when the injury occurs in the chest.

In case of cerebral aneurysm neurosurgery are used, with the question of closing the base of the lesion with special staples, sutures, coils or other devices that help to clot and prevent further bleeding. When the injury is not as large bedrest is required and the administration of medication to control headaches, blood pressure and possible seizures. Read the rest of this entry »

Given its origin, aneurysms can be classified into two groups:

Hereditary. For unknown reasons there are families in which their members suffer weakening of the muscular layer of the arteries, and often find that the force generated by blood pressure leading to spherical or a hernia in the form of cherry (saccular aneurysm), same almost always located in the region of the brain.

Acquired. They are those cases where the muscle layer gradually weakens because of other conditions such as atherosclerosis, Acquired pressure. They are those cases where the muscle layer gradually weakens because of other conditions such as atherosclerosis, high blood pressure (hypertension) and diabetes (high blood sugar levels by deficient production of insulin hormone) less often due to shock and infection by bacteria or fungi. Read the rest of this entry »