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Think of it as a blood vessel in the brain that weakens like an old inner tube, develops a blister and eventually pops, spilling large quantities of blood into the skull. That, in a nutshell, is what doctors call a ruptured cerebral aneurysm. What it feels like is the worst headache of your life. My patients have described it as a "thunderclap" in the head followed by blinding pain, nausea and vomiting. They can't look at bright lights. Their necks get stiff. Confusion sets in. Half the people who suffer through one don't live to describe...
Unfortunately, Thompson couldn't do that for her. Although Eastlund wasn't prone to headaches or the other symptoms, tests revealed that she had an aneurysm in her brain, just as her sister...
Suddenly, Eastlund and her husband Dale faced a terrible choice. They could do nothing and hope that the aneurysm would never start to leak. Or she could get the standard treatment, first performed in 1937, in which a neurosurgeon drills a hole in the skull and puts a clip (usually titanium) around the blister-like pouch. Or she could try something new: a procedure called coiling, approved...
DIED. TOMMY FLANAGAN, 71, refined, influential jazz pianist who accompanied Ella Fitzgerald for more than a decade; of an arterial aneurysm; in New York City. Born in Detroit, Flanagan developed his signature fluid yet concise style in the house band of that city's storied Blue Bird Inn before playing with Fitzgerald for the first time in 1956. In the late '80s he formed his own trios, recording the acclaimed albums Let's and Jazz Poet...
RECOVERING. BOB DOLE, 77, the 1996 Republican presidential candidate turned Viagra pitchman; from surgery for an abdominal aortic aneurysm; in Cleveland, Ohio. In an experimental procedure, Dole's surgical team inserted a permanent stent into his aorta...