The partnership between CINN and Silver Cross means patients benefit from an entire staff of experts, from neurosurgeons to the nursing staff and more, who provide world-class health care close to home. Even diagnosis can be done at Silver Cross. It must be done early because two-thirds of patients with brain aneurysms die or enter a vegetative state after an aneurysm has been ruptured. An angiogram is the most definitive test for a brain aneurysm, but the CINN neurosurgeons also use a transcranial Doppler to show signals from blood vessels very deep in the brain. It's a non-invasive test, which works very well.
Magnetic angiography is another non-invasive test to visualize some brain aneurysms.
So when she began suffering from a severe headache with nausea and numbness in her legs, an aneurysm was suspected and had not ruptured yet. She was lucky. I had a minor stroke in January, so we suspected something was really wrong in February. Dr. Ghaly suggested surgery to clip the aneurysm. It was located deep under the front part of the brain in a delicate area controlling her movement in both legs, memory, normal balance and vision.