Around 3% of us will develop a brain aneurysm in our lives. So what is it and how do you treat it?

By Theresa Larkin, Associate Professor of Medical Sciences, University of Wollongong
Jessica Nealon, Senior Lecturer in Medical Sciences (Neuroscience), University of Wollongong

Australian radio host Kyle Sandilands announced on air yesterday that he has a brain aneurysm and needs urgent brain surgery.

Typically an aneurysm occurs when a part of the wall of an artery (a type of blood vessel) becomes stretched and bulges out.

You can get an aneurysm in any blood vessel, but they are most common in the brain’s arteries and the…

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