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Molecular Anatomy of an Intracranial Aneurysm
Author(s) -
David G. Peters,
Amin Kassam,
Eleanor Feingold,
Elisa Heidrich-O’Hare,
Howard Yonas,
Robert E. Ferrell,
Adam Brufsky
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
stroke
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.397
H-Index - 319
eISSN - 1524-4628
pISSN - 0039-2499
DOI - 10.1161/01.str.32.4.1036
Subject(s) - aneurysm , medicine , extracellular matrix , subarachnoid hemorrhage , pathology , elastin , bioinformatics , radiology , biology , genetics , surgery
Approximately 6% of human beings harbor an unruptured intracranial aneurysm. Each year in the United States, >30 000 people suffer a ruptured intracranial aneurysm, resulting in subarachnoid hemorrhage. Despite the high incidence and catastrophic consequences of a ruptured intracranial aneurysm and the fact that there is considerable evidence that predisposition to intracranial aneurysm has a strong genetic component, very little is understood with regard to the pathology and pathogenesis of this disease.

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