Local teen undergoes life-saving procedure after experiencing rare aneurysm - ABC Columbia

Aneurysm is an abnormal dilation of an artery that can go unnoticed and cause serious complications if it is not detected and treated in time. The post Sudden Headache? It could be a sign of aneurysm: what you should know appeared first on El Diario.

Local teen undergoes life-saving procedure after experiencing rare aneurysm - ABC Columbia

COLUMBIA, SC (WOLO) — Doctors at Prisma Health Children’s Hospital say the type of brain aneurysm that local teenager Shiraze Kalantarian experienced will only affect one in 100,000 young people — leading her to having a life-saving procedure. Shiraze says she woke up one morning with a numb hand. “I couldn’t really hold stuff anymore I kept dropping everything,” she says. When the numbness spread to half of her body while she was at school, her…