Sequelae of cerebral aneurysm surgery

Cerebral aneurysm is a vascular lesion in which the wall of the blood vessel thins due to cystic dilatation of intracranial blood vessels and eventually forms aneurysm-like changes, which usually requires surgical treatment, and there are several main postoperative complications of this surgery: first, cerebral vasospasm, which occurs due to abnormal postoperative hemodynamic changes and reaches its peak on the seventh postoperative day, and the patient will experience neurological localization deficits, impaired consciousness, hemiplegia, and other Symptoms. Secondly, aneurysm rupture and rebleeding, some patients will have aneurysm rupture again due to postoperative pain and elevated blood pressure, resulting in hemiparesis, aphasia, impaired consciousness, cerebral hernia and other serious complications. Thirdly, patients with poor mobility in bed for a long period of time, due to pain, coughing and sputum ability become worse, patients may develop postoperative complications such as drop pneumonia, deep vein thrombosis, decubitus ulcers and so on. Fourthly, the surgery may affect the surrounding neurovascular tissues, and patients may show signs of neurological impairment such as speech abnormalities, substandard pronunciation, numbness of limbs, vision loss, epilepsy, and so on.