A New Tool To Treat Ticking Time Bombs in the Brain

Seventy-three-year-old Bernadette Fields suffered with sinus problems for years before the real cause was revealed: a very large egg-shaped aneurysm behind her nose. “They?re weaker than the regular vessel wall and it can explode,” said Dr. Ali Aziz Shultan. He said when they rupture about half of the patients die. In June UM/Jackson neurosurgeon Aziz-Sultan became one of the first in the U.S. to use a new mesh stent called Pipeline to block off blood supply to the aneurysm.