Apollo Hospitals, Chennai on June 5 said it had successfully treated dysplastic giant brain aneurysm on a 54-year-old software engineer with Neuro-Endovascular surgery.

The patient, a resident of Vembangudi in Thanjavur, currently working in Dubai developed mild headache and drooping left eyelid. He was diagnosed with a large aneurysm in the brain and Dr Srinivasan Paramasivam, Senior Consultant Neurosurgeon, performed the Neuro-Endovascular Surgery to treat the aneurysm that would have ruptured causing severe brain injury and even death.

Talking to reporters here, Dr Srinivasan Paramasivam said the patient had developed, headache, drooping of left eyelid along with double vision that required immediate medical attention. After doctors in Dubai diagnosed him with a large aneurysm in the brain, he flew into the Apollo hospitals as the condition required immediate neuro-surgical care.

A brain aneurysm is a bulge or ballooning of a blood vessel in the brain and it could leak or rupture, causing bleeding into the brain  (hemorrhagic stroke), he said. He said most often a ruptured brain aneurysm occurs in the space between the brain and the thin tissues covering the brain. This type of hemorrhagic stroke is called a subarachnoid hemorrhage. A ruptured aneurysm quickly becomes life-threatening and requires prompt medical treatment.