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Medical Must-See: Tooth pain and a golf ball–sized aneurysm

The aneurysm was too large for standard surgical repair.
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31 January 2025
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Left: A giant wide necked brain aneurysm; right: healed aneurysm secondary to treatment with the flow diverting stent. Photo: Michigan Medicine.

A 70-year-old’s tooth pain has led US doctors to discover a giant brain aneurysm behind the patient’s eye.

After a first attempt at surgical repair was unsuccessful, doctors at the University of Michigan attempted a five-hour flow diversion embolisation.

The woman first presented to ED in Muskegon, in Michigan’s west, with facial pain in January 2024.

She had a dental infection, which doctors duly treated.

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