UNIONDALE, NY – Brain aneurysm survivors, their families and friends attended “Brain Aneurysm Awareness Night” at the New York Islanders’ Dec. 11th game against the Atlanta Thrashers at Nassau Coliseum.

Representing other brain aneurysm survivors treated at the North Shore-LIJ Health System’s Brain Aneurysm Institute, Luisa DiMonda of Oceanside, NY, dropped the ceremonial first puck. She credits North Shore University Hospital’s neurovascular surgeon David Chalif, MD, and interventional neuroradiologist Avi Setton, MD, for saving her life.

“Brain aneurysms are a silent killer. Thirty percent of people die after an aneurysm bleeds and one-to-five percent of people are walking around right now with an aneurysm and don’t know it,” said Dr. Chalif. “But there are warning signs and our goal at the Brain Aneurysm Awareness Night was to educate the public about what the warning signs are and when to get to the hospital.”

The Brain Aneurysm Awareness Night was sponsored by the Brain Aneurysm Institute, part of North Shore-LIJ’s Cushing Institutes of Neuroscience. A portion of the proceeds of the December 11th game was donated to the Brain Aneurysm Foundation to promote research for brain aneurysms.

For more information about the Brain Aneurysm Institute at North Shore University Hospital, call 516-562-3070 or go to: http://www.northshorelij.com/NSLIJ/Brain+Aneurysm+Center.

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