Dubai: In what is being hailed as timely, life-saving surgery, surgeons at Al Zahra Hospital, Dubai, quickly diagnosed a lethal ruptured brain aneurysm in a patient who had complained of a headache. Within 20 minutes she was rushed for what turned out to be a life-saving surgery.
Ela, the 41-year-old Filipina expatriate, came to the hospital’s Emergency section a day before New Year’s eve, complaining of a thunderclap headache that had rendered her unconscious. Doctors at the Emergency unit quickly assessed her and sent her for a CT scan within 20 minutes of her arrival.
“The CT scan revealed a subarachnoid haemorrhage (brain bleeding) and we rushed the patient for a CT angiogram,” said Dr Amr Kabakebji, Interventional Radiologist at Al Zahra Hospital, Dubai. “The angiogram showed what we call a basilar tip ruptured aneurysm, which is a bulge in a blood vessel in the brain that had burst. We immediately began the coiling procedure,” added Dr. Kabakebji.
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