Saccular intracranial aneurysms (sIA) are pouch-like pathological dilatations of intracranial
arteries that develop when the cerebral artery wall becomes too weak to resist hemodynamic …

Rupture of a saccular intracranial artery aneurysm (IA) causes subarachnoid hemorrhage, a
significant cause of stroke and death. The current treatment options, endovascular coiling …

BACKGROUND: Anterior communicating artery complex is the most frequent site of intracranial
aneurysms in most reported series. Anterior communicating artery aneurysms are the …

Recently, two common sequence variants on 9p21, tagged by rs10757278-G and rs10811661-T,
were reported to be associated with coronary artery disease (CAD) 1, 2, 3, 4 and type 2 …

Background and Purpose— The cellular mechanisms of degeneration and repair preceding
rupture of the saccular cerebral artery aneurysm wall need to be elucidated for rational …

Atrial fibrillation (AF) affects more than 33 million individuals worldwide 1 and has a complex
heritability 2 . We conducted the largest meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies (…

Height is a highly heritable, classic polygenic trait with approximately 700 common associated
variants identified through genome-wide association studies so far. Here, we report 83 …

OBJECTIVE: Long-term follow-up studies in patients with brain arteriovenous malformations
(AVM) have yielded contradictory results regarding both risk factors for rupture and annual …

… 42 Drake CG, Peerless SJ, Hernesniemi JA. Complications of surgery for vertebrobasilar
artery aneurysms and final comments. In: Surgery of Vertebrobasilar Aneurysms: London, …

Saccular intracranial aneurysms are balloon-like dilations of the intracranial arterial wall;
their hemorrhage commonly results in severe neurologic impairment and death. We report a …