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what are the odds of surviving a brain aneurysm

JJMcJ 4y ago
With prompt treatment, somewhere around 50%. A really bad one can kill someone in minutes. Untreated, like you're alone and nobody finds you for days, much much less, and the recovery of functioning less likely. Depends on how much bleeding and where.
- Volundr 4y ago
  Yeah I'd bet the specifics play in heavily. Anecdotally when I was in high school my girlfriend had a siezure from a ruptured aneurysm while we were watching her little brother. I don't remember how long it took her to regain consciousness on her own, but I remember her being fairly lucid talking to the paramedics, wanting to know what happened so not long. Didn't suffer any long term effects. I have to assume luck of the draw plays in heavily.
  - JJMcJ 4y ago
    Very much a matter of luck and details. What part of the brain is injured, how bad the bleed is, how quickly it can be treated, how good the treatment is. Anything from dead within a few minutes to no effects at all, with great variation in lost or reduced function in between.
- lostlogin 4y ago
  > With prompt treatment, somewhere around 50%. A really bad one can kill someone in minutes. I'm very far from expert in this and don't work in the field, but I think this thread is talking about ruptured aneurysms. Unruptured ones do considerably better with coiling, flow diverting stents or clips. The first link from 2014 has a 15-16% mortality rate at 7 years for treated aneurysms. Treatment has got better in the 15 years since those people were operated on. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24724850/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24724850/ https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/01.STR.29.8.1531 https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/01.STR.29.8.153... https://www.bafound.org/about-brain-aneurysms/brain-aneurysm-basics/brain-aneurysm-statistics-and-facts/ https://www.bafound.org/about-brain-aneurysms/brain-aneurysm...

With prompt treatment, somewhere around 50%. A really bad one can kill someone in minutes. Untreated, like you're alone and nobody finds you for days, much much less, and the recovery of functioning less likely. Depends on how much bleeding and where.

Volundr 4y ago
Yeah I'd bet the specifics play in heavily. Anecdotally when I was in high school my girlfriend had a siezure from a ruptured aneurysm while we were watching her little brother. I don't remember how long it took her to regain consciousness on her own, but I remember her being fairly lucid talking to the paramedics, wanting to know what happened so not long. Didn't suffer any long term effects. I have to assume luck of the draw plays in heavily.
- JJMcJ 4y ago
  Very much a matter of luck and details. What part of the brain is injured, how bad the bleed is, how quickly it can be treated, how good the treatment is. Anything from dead within a few minutes to no effects at all, with great variation in lost or reduced function in between.
lostlogin 4y ago
> With prompt treatment, somewhere around 50%. A really bad one can kill someone in minutes. I'm very far from expert in this and don't work in the field, but I think this thread is talking about ruptured aneurysms. Unruptured ones do considerably better with coiling, flow diverting stents or clips. The first link from 2014 has a 15-16% mortality rate at 7 years for treated aneurysms. Treatment has got better in the 15 years since those people were operated on. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24724850/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24724850/ https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/01.STR.29.8.1531 https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/01.STR.29.8.153... https://www.bafound.org/about-brain-aneurysms/brain-aneurysm-basics/brain-aneurysm-statistics-and-facts/ https://www.bafound.org/about-brain-aneurysms/brain-aneurysm...