title: Intracranial aneurysm and recessive polycystic kidney disease: the third reported case.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To highlight the possible association of intracranial aneurysm with autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease.
  
  
  METHODS
  To our knowledge, this association has been reported only twice in the medical literature. We herein report the case of a 21-year-old man with autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease, presenting with subarachnoid hemorrhage secondary to a ruptured intracranial aneurysm, at our institution.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In the presence of only 3 cases in the medical literature, one might conclude they are a simple coincidence. However, should this association exist, such as with the dominant form, then the neurologic prognosis and even the life of young patients may be at stake.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Given the devastating consequences of intracranial bleeding in young patients, early neurologic screening may be warranted.
authors: Hotel-Dieu de France Hospital, St Joseph University Medical School, Beirut, Lebanon. vivchalhoub@yahoo.com
authors: Viviane
authors: V
authors: Chalhoub
authors: Lise
authors: L
authors: Abi-Rafeh
authors: Kamal
authors: K
authors: Hachem
authors: Eliane
authors: E
authors: Ayoub
authors: Patricia
authors: P
authors: Yazbeck
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D015897:Comorbidity; D006801:Humans; D002532:Intracranial Aneurysm / Q000150:complications*; D018810:Magnetic Resonance Angiography; D008297:Male; D017044:Polycystic Kidney, Autosomal Recessive / Q000453:epidemiology*; D013345:Subarachnoid Hemorrhage / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D055815:Young Adult