Dr. Camilo R. Gomez

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Living Your Legacy · How a Stroke Pioneer Is Rewriting Brain Medicine · 31 Jul 2026 podcast

Well, it produces a hemorrhage.

But an aneurysm is, imagine a blister on the wall of a vessel.

Okay.

And that blister begins to grow the same way you take a water balloon and you put more water in it.

Yeah.

And you keep putting water in the water balloon until it's so big that it explodes.

Gotcha.

And that's what an aneurysm is.

So our job is to actually go in there and fill the aneurysm with or prevent blood flow into the aneurysm by filling it with platinum coils or closing the neck of the aneurysm so there's no flow in it.

So not only it doesn't rupture because there's no flow in it, but it shrinks or it disappears.

Wow.

Well, I grew up in Cuba.

Actually, I was born in Cuba.

And of course, in 1959, with the advent of Castro and the communist regime over there, my parents were forced to emigrate from Cuba in the early 1960s.

So we moved.

We spent time in Mexico, in Bogota, Colombia.

in South America.

Then I spent most of my formative years in Caracas, Venezuela.

Okay.

And then I went to medical school in the Dominican Republic.

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