Conditions & Diseases: Cardiovascular System

Aneurysm

See Also:
Aneurysm: Introduction & Overview
Aneurysm: Types & Shapes
Aneurysm: Causes & Risk Factors
Aneurysm: Signs & Symptoms
Aneurysm: Medical Tests & Diagnosis Methods
Aneurysm: Treatment & Prevention Options

Introduction

An aneurysm is an abnormal bulging or “ballooning” in the walls of blood vessels carrying oxygen rich blood from the heart to various parts of the body. Aneurysms are caused by a weakening of the wall in the arteries, veins or heart chamber by and can occur due to injury, disease, or abnormality present at birth.

An aneurysm can occur in the arteries of the brain, heart, intestine, neck, spleen, back of the knees, thighs and in other parts of the body (1).

About 200,000 people in the US are diagnosed to be suffering from an aneurysm of which, 15,000 die from Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms (AAA). It is important to note that ruptured aortic aneurysm is 10th leading cause of death in men above 50 years in the US (1) & (2).

See Also:
Aneurysm: Introduction & Overview
Aneurysm: Types & Shapes
Aneurysm: Causes & Risk Factors
Aneurysm: Signs & Symptoms
Aneurysm: Medical Tests & Diagnosis Methods
Aneurysm: Treatment & Prevention Options

Article by Kona Vishnu, MS
Medical Writer,
OmniMedicalSearch.com

Aneurysm is sometimes misspelled as: anurism, anuerism and anuerysm.