(1) The increasing swelling of an aneurysm of the aorta may press on the spine and chest organs.(2) For instance, if the aneurysm involves the arteries to the kidneys then surgeons need this information if they plan to operate.(3) An aneurysm is a swelling in part of an artery caused by damage to, or weakness of, a blood vessel wall.(4) Your doctor can measure pulses at points around your body to check for a variety of problems, including aneurysms and narrowed arteries.(5) The second patient described herein had aneurysmal changes with advanced degenerative disease.(6) About a third of patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage will re-bleed, and this is a major cause of poor outcome.(7) If the leak persists or the aneurysmal sac enlarges, intervention becomes necessary.(8) However, the vascular wall was intact without any aneurysmal dilation or communication with the hemorrhagic cystic lesion.(9) Subarachnoid hemorrhage associated with aneurysmal rupture is a potentially lethal event with a mortality rate as high as 50 percent.(10) In patients without subarachnoid hemorrhage from a separate aneurysm, larger aneurysms also were more likely to rupture.