Documentary

The Aneurysm and AVM Foundation is making a landmark documentary to build awareness for the detection and treatment of aneurysms. If you would like to share your personal story relating to aneurysms, email us at: info@aneurysmfoundation.org.

In this decade, there has been important advancement in the treatment of aneurysms, a leading cause of strokes or bleeding in the brain - America's third leading killer and number one disabler of adults.

The documentary will expose these facts:

• The Ticking Time Bomb: 3 to 5 percent of the adult population or ca. 2 million Americans have an unruptured aneurysm. Although most will never burst, predicting which ones will is crucial.
• Detonation: Every year, an estimated 30,000 of these cerebral aneurysms will rupture
• Devastation: Ruptured brain aneurysms are fatal in about 50 percent of cases.
• Action: If we apply what we now know about stroke we could prevent 50% of these devastating events from ever happening in the first place.

This documentary will present information on risk factors and newly identified prevention tools that work. But they can only work if the public is informed. Viewers will learn just what an aneurysm is, how it develops, the signs and symptoms, the risk factors and prevention strategies which include lifestyle change, medication, and surgery.

To donate, you may do so online, or, make a check payable to "The Aneurysm and AVM Foundation" and indicate on the check which activity the donation should be directed toward: TAAF, or the Documentary. Then mail to:
 
The Aneurysm and AVM Foundation
2811 Castro Valley Blvd.
Suite 111
Castro Valley, CA 94546
 
Be sure to indicate your preference that the funds be ear-marked for the documentary!