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Cigarette Smoking Increases the Risk Of Formation and Rupture of Intracranial Aneurysms

Cigarette Smoking Increases the Risk Of Formation and Rupture of Intracranial Aneurysms. Shelebra Bartley Master’s Project Dr. Grimes. If you are a woman with a brain and you smoke…. Your brain will EXPLODE. Quick Review.

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Cigarette Smoking Increases the Risk Of Formation and Rupture of Intracranial Aneurysms

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  1. Cigarette Smoking Increases the Risk Of Formation and Rupture of Intracranial Aneurysms Shelebra Bartley Master’s Project Dr. Grimes

  2. If you are a woman with a brain and you smoke…

  3. Your brain will EXPLODE

  4. Quick Review • An aneurysm is a weakened spot on a blood vessel that balloons out and fills with blood • The aneurysm can put pressure on surrounding nerves or it can rupture causing blood to spill into the surrounding tissue

  5. 3 Types of Aneurysms • Fusiform • Berry • Lateral

  6. Berry Aneurysm • Aka saccular aneurysm • Attached by a neck or a stem to an artery • Accounts for 90% of all aneursyms

  7. Berry Aneurysm

  8. How to diagnose an Aneursym? • CT angiography • Magnetic Resonance Angiography (MRA) • THE GOLD STANDARD • INTRA-ARTERIAL CATHETER ANGIOGRAPHY

  9. Arteriogram CT Scan

  10. Treatment Options • REFER • REFER • REFER

  11. Education • Stop smoking • Stop drinking • Control blood pressure

  12. Helsinki Research Results • Studied 278 subjects • Age 15-60 with subarachnoid hemorrhage • 314 patients in control group • Research team studied the effects of cigarette smoking, alcohol intake and HTN on the rupture of intracranial aneurysms

  13. What they found… • Current cigarette smoking especially in women is an independent risk factor for formation and rupture of intracranial aneurysms • Current smokers and previous smokers had more aneurysms than did those who had never smoked regularly

  14. Johns Hopkins Research • Angiography confirmed intracranial aneurysms • 419 patients dx with intracranial aneurysm • 127 had multiple aneurysms • Women and hx of smoking

  15. Anybody need a smoke break?

  16. University of Colorado • 92% of patients with aneurysms larger than 24mm • 78% of patients with aneurysms ranging in size from 13.3mm to 24mm • 66% of patients with aneurysms smaller than 13mm

  17. WERE SMOKERS

  18. IN CONCLUSION • Evidence has shown that cigarette smoking increases the rate of formation and rupture of intracranial aneurysms • Cigarette smoking and female gender can be identified as an independent risk factor

  19. If you are a woman with a brain and you smoke…your brain will explode

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