Karen asked:
<Neil has epilepsy, so obviously his brain has been looked at quite a bit
over the years ... if he was born with [the aneurysm], wouldn't he have
already known it
was there? Do they get larger? Why now? What happened?>

Good questions. Aneurysms do get larger with age, so they are usually not
detectable until sometime in adulthood. Also, most of his care for epilepsy was
before the MRI era, so he likely had one or more CAT scans (instead of MRI
scans), less likely to pick up an aneurysm. Additionally, we now have MRA scans
in the past few years, a variation of MRI scanning that when necessary shows
even smaller aneurysms.

Cerebral aneurysms are fairly common, but most are well below the one
centimeter size that puts them at risk to rupture.

I suspect Neil will do great.

docdon
-sleeps with Pocahontas-


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