At the hospital, an MRI showed she had an aneurysm that had ruptured. She had immediate, invasive surgery—her aneurysm was repaired by clipping off the ruptured artery. It took her a couple of months to recover. My sister was fortunate in that the surgeon got to it in time, and that ...
Ovulation is when a mature egg is released from an ovary. This process starts with the pituitary gland sending out a luteinizing hormone (LH) to the ovary. A follicle with a mature egg inside is ruptured, releasing the egg. Once the mature egg is released, it travels through the fallopian...
Aneurysmalsubarachnoid hemorrhage, a life-threatening type of stroke that happens when a ruptured aneurysm causes bleeding into the space surrounding the brain, has an average mortality rate of 30 to 50 percent. And among patients who survive the initial hemorrhage, about one-third develop severe an...