Among people who had aneurysms (weakened areas in brain blood vessels), the risk of developing a mental health condition was higher than among peers without an aneurysm. The highest risk was seen in patients younger than age 40, according to research published today in Stroke , the peer-reviewed scientific journal of the American Stroke Association, a division of the American Heart Association. An unruptured intracranial aneurysm occurs when the wall of a blood vessel in the brain becomes weak and bulges out, posing a potential risk of future rupture and life-threatening bleeding in the brain.
As a neurosurgeon who treats cerebral aneurysms, I often see people who do not undergo surgery yet feel fear and/or anxiety about their condition before each imaging or screening test to monitor their condition. Even when it is medically judged and explained that follow-up observation is the best course for their aneurysm rather than surgery, they still worry about the very slim chance of developing a fatal brain bleed." Na-Rae Yang, M.
D., Ph.D.
, study co-author, assistant professor of neurosurgery in the department of neurosurgery at Ewha Womans University Mokdong Hospital, Ewha Womans University College of Medicine in Seoul, South Korea "This study did not specifically target brain aneurysms that were small enough not to require treatment and had a low probability of rupture. We included all diagnosed, untreated brain aneurysms that were being followed," Yang said. "The reason for not.