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  • January 17, 2024
    UB Startup Receives $2.9 Million to Develop Blood Test for Brain Aneurysms
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  • January 25, 2023
    Preventing Brain Aneurysm Ruptures; Education, Awareness, Research
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  • December 15, 2022
    Meet Research Grant Recipient: Stacey Wolfe, MD, FAANS
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  • October 20, 2022
    Meet Research Grant Recipient: Ben Strickland, MD
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  • October 20, 2022
    Meet Research Grant Recipients: Alfred P. See, PhD and Shivani Rangwala
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  • October 20, 2022
    Meet Research Grant Recipient: Edgar A. Samaniego, MD, MS
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  • October 17, 2022
    Meet Research Grant Recipient: Tatsat Patel, PhD & Sricharan Veeturi
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  • September 21, 2022
    Meet Research Grant Recipient: Nicholas Norris
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  • September 08, 2022
    Meet Research Grant Recipient: Devin McBride, PhD
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  • September 01, 2022
    Meet Research Grant Recipient: Melanie Martinez
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  • AdventHealth Brain Aneurysm Support Group

    Winter Park, FL

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  • Baltimore Brain Aneurysm Foundation Support Group

    Lutherville-Timonium, MD

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  • Bay Area Aneurysm and Vascular Malformation Support Group

    San Francisco, CA

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  • July 27, 2019
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  • Technology

Life-threatening brain aneurysm treated with first-in-U.S. device

Before aneurysm surgery involving a device that evokes images of a Romanian gymnast, Maria Cram blamed her somersaulting stomach and vaulting headache on food poisoning.

“I was throwing up… My head felt like it was going to split in half,” said the 53-year-old Palmdale woman in a phone interview from a Thousand Oaks intensive care unit. “I told my husband I have to go to the hospital.”

When doctors at Palmdale Regional Medical Center found a ruptured blood vessel in her brain, she was helicoptered to the stroke center at Los Robles Health System.

Read the full story here.

Tom Kisken, Ventura County Star



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