A woman in her 60s suddenly had a severe headache, and when she went to the hospital to find out that it was a ruptured intracranial aneurysm and bleeding, she was in critical condition. The reporter learned that in the recent low temperature, rain, snow and freezing weather, the Department of Neurosurgery of Houhu Branch of Wuhan Central Hospital has successively admitted a number of patients with ruptured intracranial aneurysms.
Ms. Zhang (pseudonym), a 62-year-old woman who lives in Wuhan's Dongxihu District, was immediately sent to the Houhu Campus of Wuhan Central Hospital for treatment after her family immediately sent her to the Houhu Campus of Wuhan Central Hospital for treatment two days ago when she was doing housework. The emergency head CT examination showed subarachnoid hemorrhage, and the neurosurgery expert team carefully analyzed the condition, considered the possibility of intracranial aneurysm rupture and bleeding, and further improved the cranial CTA examination, and the results confirmed that the right middle cerebral artery aneurysm ruptured and hemorrhage. This is a "ticking time bomb" lurking in the patient's brain. Since the aneurysm has ruptured, if it is not "defused" in time, it may still rupture again in the short term, and once it bleeds again, it will be life-threatening.
Due to the critical condition, after full communication with the patient's family, the team of neurosurgeons decided to perform a less invasive interventional embolization procedure** for a ruptured intracranial aneurysm. After careful preoperative preparation, Chief Physician Chen Wen of the Department of Neurosurgery, Attending Physician He Miao and Attending Physician Huang Wei performed transfemoral cerebral angiography and intracranial aneurysm interventional embolization for Ms. Zhang.
Li Jun, director of the neurosurgery department of the hospital, introduced that the intracranial aneurysm is not a tumor in the real sense, it is due to the weakness of the arterial wall, and under the impact of blood flow, the aneurysm-like bulge formed by the blood vessel wall, which is known as the "first bomb" in the skull, once ruptured, the disability rate and mortality rate are extremely high. Recently, the number of patients with intracranial aneurysms admitted to the department has increased significantly, and cold is the cause of the easy "detonation" of intracranial aneurysms, because the cold weather stimulates the sympathetic nerves of the human body, vasoconstriction, and sudden increase in blood pressure, resulting in an increase in the probability of intracranial aneurysm rupture.
Experts remind that people with hypertension, diabetes, hyperlipidemia and family history of cerebral aneurysm, long-term smoking, and alcohol abuse are high-risk groups for intracranial aneurysms, and targeted screening should be conducted. In the near future, attention should be paid to cold and warmth, avoid cold stimuli, and avoid mood swings. Once there is a sudden and unexplained severe headache, accompanied by nausea, vomiting and other symptoms, it is necessary to be vigilant for intracranial aneurysm rupture, and you should seek medical attention in time to avoid missing the best opportunity.
Reporter: Liu Yating Correspondent: Liu Shanshan.
Editor: Wang Jian.
Editor-in-charge: Summer.
Editor: Wang Jun.