Aneurysms

Aneurysms are rare in teenagers.

Aneurysms are dangerous unless they're treated right away.

DeBakey also pioneered the clearing of blocked arteries to the brain to prevent strokes, the bypassing of clogged coronary arteries to prevent heart attacks, and the repair of aortic aneurysms.

There are cases on record where rapidly growing sarcomatous and angiomatous tumours, aneurysms, and the bruises that occur in haemophylics, have been mistaken for acute abscesses and incised, with disastrous results.

Under pressure, those aneurysms can expand like balloons, stretching the arterial wall.

The study is described as the first to document a link between cocaine and coronary aneurysms. Cocaine users in their early forties had four times the risk as non-users in the same age group.