What are the causes and symptoms and treatments of Yeo Esther's disease-fighting brain aneurysm?
Apr 10, 2025
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On the 9th, a video of Yeo Esther receiving regular brain aneurysm checkups was posted on YouTube channel 'EstherTV'.
During her trip to Japan in 2017, Yeo Esther said she felt heavy in her head and tilted her head because the hotel sink was low, and she felt pain on her right side. The brain aneurysm has no symptoms until it bursts. After coming to Korea, I took a brain MRA at a hospital with a friend, and I got a 6mm one. He said the motive was the largest brain aneurysm he has ever seen. The last time I measured it, it was reduced to 4mm," he said.
Then "Keep it like this. People are asking if I'm scared, but I'm scared of horror movies and bungee jumping, but I'm not scared of having a brain aneurysm in my body. He said about the test results, `There was no change.' The cause, symptoms, and treatment of brain aneurysms, which are drawing attention to her disease, have been summarized.
◇ What caused this?
Brain aneurysm refers to a shape in which the brain artery swells due to various causes and has fruits like kkari. The brain aneurysm 'flow (瘤)' means 'hump', which is easy to understand in the sense that the brain aneurysm is shaped like a lump.
It is a super emergency disease that causes minute cracks or ruptures as the walls of cerebrovascular vessels that swell like balloons weaken, causing cerebral hemorrhage. The fatality rate of bleeding is so high that it is sometimes compared to a 'time bomb', and neurological sequelae are also diverse.
However, symptoms or complications rarely occur with the brain aneurysm itself. In general, most brain aneurysms are more often not felt by themselves because they do not have any symptoms until they are significantly larger or ruptured.
According to the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service, 188,596 people were treated at hospitals for non-destructive brain aneurysms in 2023, more than three times higher than 46,387 in 2013. By age, people in their 60s accounted for 35.7%, followed by 22.7% in their 70s, 22.6% in their 50s, and 9.6% in their 40s. By gender, female patients are more than twice as many as men.
Kim Dong-seop, a professor of neurosurgery at the Catholic University of Korea's Incheon St. Mary's Hospital, said, `Brain aneurysms occur frequently in women in their 50s or older, which is believed to be the main cause of the decrease in female hormones (estrogen) that protect blood vessels after menopause"However, it is often found in women in their 20s and 30s, and in patients with polycystic kidney disease, which causes a flood in the kidney, the probability of brain aneurysm is high, so it is necessary to perform a cerebrovascular test."
The exact cause of the brain aneurysm is still unknown. However, it is considered to be related to genetic causes such as △ hemodynamic causes △ infection △ trauma △ autoimmune diseases. If you have a family history of brain aneurysms, you should get a checkup in advance.
Although general headaches alone cannot suspect brain aneurysm, the possibility of brain aneurysm is considered when there is a family history of stroke, chronic headaches persist in the 40s or older, or extreme headaches that seem to break the head.
◇ What are the symptoms?
If the brain aneurysm ruptures, symptoms such as stiff back neck, sudden loss of consciousness, and vomiting may appear. The biggest feature is that you suddenly feel a severe ruptured headache that you have never experienced in your life, as if you have been hit with a hammer. This is because blood flows into the subbrain space at once.
If you feel a severe headache at the time of the rupture, most of you come to the emergency room immediately, and in this case, it is fortunate that you are unhappy. When ruptured, the amount of bleeding is determined by the pressure of the cerebrovascular and the size of the rupture site, and too much bleeding can lead to death before reaching the emergency room.
Patients with non-fracture brain aneurysms sometimes complain of headaches, but most often have no symptoms. The number of accidental discoveries is increasing mainly through medical checkups. However, if there is a large brain aneurysm in the distal part of the internal artery, it may cause the eyelid to grow, double vision, or pupil to grow by pressing the nerve during the surrounding period.
◇ What about diagnosis and treatment?
The diagnosis is performed by brain computed tomography (CTA), brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRA), and cerebrovascular angiography. Recently, brain aneurysms have been diagnosed and treated only with brain computed tomography or brain magnetic resonance imaging, but the greatest weight is still placed on cerebrovascular angiography. Cerebral angiography, which checks cerebrovascular vessels by inserting a tube called a catheter into the femoral artery or wrist artery, is also used directly for treatment, and in some cases, it is a treatment that is used as much as surgery.
Brain aneurysms are often observed by tracking images regularly if the risk of cerebral hemorrhage is very low depending on the location and size, but are mainly treated through surgery. There are two methods of surgery: endovascular coil embolization, in which a small tube is attracted to the brain aneurysm through the thigh femoral artery and treated with a platinum coil, and an incision in the skull to find and ligate the brain aneurysm (a method of tying or tightening a blood vessel).
Preventing brain aneurysm is not easy. In particular, if it is a genetic cause, there is a limit to preventing the occurrence of health habits alone. However, as there are reports that high blood pressure, diabetes, hyperlipidemia and smokers are more at risk, a healthy diet that usually stops smoking and reduces intake of foods high in sugar, carbohydrates, and cholesterol can help to some extent. It is also important not to get stressed. There are also reports that hyperlipidemia medications help prevent brain aneurysm rupture by alleviating the inflammatory response of blood vessels.
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This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
