39 Background and Purpose— Individual rupture risk assessment of intracranial aneurysms is a 40 major issue in the clinical management of asymptomatic aneurysms. Aneurysm rupture occurs 41 when wall tension exceeds the strength limit of the wall tissue. At present, aneurysmal wall 42 mechanics are poorly understood and thus, risk-assessment involving mechanical properties is 43 inexistent. Addi...

Many patients with unruptured aneurysms come to medical attention because their lesions are discovered by magnetic resonance (MR). Recent studies suggest a low ( 1) mortality and morbidity with surgical obliteration of these unruptured aneurysms. This contrasts with significantly higher overall rates once the aneurysm is ruptured. Thus, a highly reliable and accurate detection technique to disc...

Unruptured cerebral aneurysms sometimes present with visual symptomsdue to compression of the visual pathways. However, until now, unruptured anterior communicating artery (ACoA) aneurysms presenting visual field defects have been extremely rare. The authors report the case of a 51-year-old woman who presented with left homonymous hemianopsia. Radiological findings demonstrated an ACoA aneurysm...

Owing to the rapid development of intervention techniques and devices, endovascular coil embolization of cerebral arteries has become standardized. It is particularly preferred when a patient presents with an unruptured intracranial aneurysm of the posterior communicating artery (PcomA). However, the risk of thrombogenic complications of the coil migration may also result in a large cerebral in...

Ectopic pregnancy continues to be an important health problem worldwide. Between the early 1970’s and the late 1980’s/early 1990’s there was a considerable increase in the incidence of ectopic pregnancies. Recent evidence, however, suggests that within the last decade the incidence may have been falling. In developed countries close to 90% or more of ectopic pregnancies are diagnosed unruptured...

BACKGROUND A duplicated middle cerebral artery (DMCA) is a rare vessel anomaly. Aneurysms at the origin of DMCA have been reported. CASE DESCRIPTION We report 2 cases of aneurysms at the origin of DMCA accompanied by aneurysms at different sites. Each case of ruptured and unruptured aneurysm at the DMCA origin was associated with an unruptured aneurysm at the ipsilateral internal carotid arte...

BACKGROUND A sinus of Valsalva aneurysm is a rare cardiac anomaly which may be acquired or congenital. The main associated symptoms are conduction disturbances, myocardial ischemia, and syncopes. CASE PRESENTATION In this report we describe a 52-year-old Albanian woman from Kosovo with an unruptured aneurysm of 74×60 mm of the noncoronary sinus of Valsalva presenting dyspnea, jugular distensi...