The Brain Aneurysm by Vini G. Khurana

Dr. Vini G. Khurana graduated with his medical and research degrees from the University of Sydney in 1995 and undertook his surgical internship at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney, Australia. He received his Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences and the Thoralf Sundt Neurosurgical Research Fellowship from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, where he also completed his neurosurgical residency in 2005. Dr. Khurana, recently a Cerebrovascular and Skull Base Surgery Fellow at Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona, under the tutelage of Dr. Robert Spetzler, has recently been appointed as Associate Professor of Neurosurgery for the University of Sydney in Australia. Dr. Robert F. Spetzler received his Bachelor of Science degree from Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, and his M.D. from Northwestern Medical School, Chicago, Illinois. His postgraduate training was completed at Wesley Memorial Hospital Northwestern in Chicago, Illinois, and his neurosurgical residency was completed at the University of California San Francisco, California. He achieved his Board Certification in September 1979 from the American Board of Neurological Surgery. Dr. Spetzler's academic credentials include Instructor of Neurosurgery at the University of California San Francisco, California; Assistant and Associate Professor of Neurosurgery at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio; and Professor of Surgery, Section of Neurosurgery, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, Arizona. Dr. Spetzler is the J.N. Harber Chairman of Neurological Surgery and Director of the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona.

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Upon returning home from the hospital after suffering a ruptured aneurysm (SAH) in 2007, I was naturally curious how I survived a medical event that causes death or at least irreversible medical challenges for so many people. I read this book within the first couple of months during convalescence. This book helped me understand the hundreds of questions I had about what caused my aneurysm, what actually happened in my brain arteries to cause the rupture, what medical procedures work most successfully for the different types of aneurysms, what complications to expect, and why the drugs I had to take were so important. Now, knowing that cigarette smoke can cause SAHs, I will never, ever smoke again. It is very hard to find information on the internet and in the bookstore on the SAH topic, so I was sincerely relieved to have found this book to help me through this trying time. My husband read it before I read it, and our reading it has helped us communicate with all the various doctors and medical staff therefore expediting the healing process. This book is very easy to read, engaging, and understandable. The authors did a wonderful job and should be commended for their ability to make something as complicated as brain surgery so simple for others to absorb.