Can a brain aneurysm be picked up during an autopsy?

Question:

I was referring to Cher's longtime back up singer, Patti Darcy Jones and I hear rumors that she died of a brain aneurysm. But people say that autopsy results came back negative. Can a brain aneurym be picked up during an autopsy or they'd have to wait weeks to do more testing? I don't understand how she can just die suddenly? She was young and appeared to be very healthy. How can a healthy person just die so suddenly at a young age and even people who does the autopsy can't find anything?

Answers:
Yes. There is usually blood pooled up. jr

yes it can

depends on how deep in the brain it was, and how big a vessel it was, but generally, yes, they can detect it.

Yes, most definitely.

They often can, but it's possible it could be missed visually.

An autopsy should be sufficient to confirm if the attending phycisian found it at the time of death.

If a full autopsy is done following death, a brain aneurysm would certainly be found, because the cause of sudden death would have to be the bursting of the aneurysm, and the brain case would be full of blood.

An aneurysm is an abnormal dilation or ballooning of a blood vessel. This abnormal dilation makes it susceptible to rupture and therefore may bleed. If the aneurysm is in the brain, there will be bleeding in the brain and this will eventually lead to death. If the autopsy done is only a limited autopsy, the brain may be spared, hence, an autopsy may be negative if the aneurysm is located in an area not covered by the autopsy.

The aneurysm would be very easy to find. Its a burst blood vessel and a significant amount of blood certainly bleed out at the site before his heart stopped pumping. And a brain aneurysm is one of the reasons a young healthy person dies suddenly. Is just an anatomical defect in a really bad spot and when it expands too much it just bursts. Really pretty easy to fix if you know its there. If you're young and healthy and you have one you'll never know unless you get a CT scan.

yes, usually a brain aneurysm can be detected because it causes the blood to stop flowing to the face and it will cause petecei in the eyes. then they would know to look there.

for what it's worth, i found this but it's quite medically worded in nature:

http://www.springerlink.com/content/r762...

http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/a...

sorry, couldn't find anything more specific

Can a brain aneurysm be picked up during an autopsy?

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