News tagged with coil embolization

Outside the box: Team uses brain aneurysm treatment to stop irregular heart rhythms

For the first time, a UCLA team has used a technique normally employed in treating brain aneurysms to treat severe, life-threatening irregular heart rhythms in two patients.

Cardiology Mar 14, 2013 | 5 / 5 (3) | 0 |

The Medical Minute: Pipes in the brain as treatment for aneurysms

Brain aneurysms are balloon-like out-pouchings that can develop off of brain arteries. Like balloons, these out-pouchings can burst causing a devastating type of stroke as blood leaks in and around the brain. ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Dec 09, 2011 | not rated yet | 0