Kyle Sandilands shares worrying surgery update amid brain aneurysm diagnosis

Kyle Sandilands has shared a grim update on his health condition days after revealing doctors found an aneurysm in his brain.

Kyle Sandilands has shared a grim update on his health condition, days after revealing doctors found an aneurysm in his brain.

The radio host revealed more details on his shock diagnosis this morning on The Kyle & Jackie O Show, opening up about the brain surgery he requires immediately.

The 53-year-old told listeners that surgeons only have one option to remove the aneurysm that is located at the front right side of his brain – and that is by “drilling a hole through his skull the size of a drinking glass.”

“The shape of [the aneurysm] has limited the operation they can do,” he told co-host Jackie “O” Henderson. “So, remember, they were going to thread it through a vein and stick a little cannula in there and put this coil in there. Well, mine’s the wrong shape for a coil. So they can’t do that.”

“The only option to get to it is to [open the skull]. That will mean I have this huge scar from the forehead to top of ear and they would have to drill a hole in my skull, go into the brain and clip it off.”

Sandilands then said doctors have told him to give the surgery much thought as “leaving [the aneurysm] and monitoring it” until it gets bigger will actually cause less problems.

“As soon as I do any procedure my risk goes right up,” he said of his doctor’s advice.

Kyle Sandilands on radio this morning detailed the surgery he requires for his brain aneurysm.

Sandilands revealed that doctors found another aneurysm in his chest.

“They have to drill a hole through my skull the size of a drinking glass, pull that bit of skull out and go into the brain and clip it off. So they put a titanium clip on the vein where the problem is, and then they stitch me up with the plastic surgeon.

“He told me to take the weekend to think about it. It’s not going to like it’s unlikely. It’s going to rupture over the weekend. It’s on the smaller side, he said. But he has had he has had patients bleed out with much smaller aneurysms. So it’s not a joke.”

The radio host also revealed he needs to have a second surgery to remove another aneurysm found in his chest.

“They found another one in my chest and that’s a separate surgery and I have very bad calcium build-up in the heart where I’m likely to have a heart attack,” shared Sandilands, who added that doctors have limited his coffee intake to two a day as opposed to the 15 large cups of coffee he consumes daily.

Sandilands said he has a 25 per cent chance of having a heart attack in the next five years “if I do nothing about that”.

If Sandilands opts for surgery, he will need eight weeks to recover and will likely be away for the KJ show for that period.

It was on Monday morning that Sandilands first made his diagnosis public.

“I was told by my medical team, which sounds like I’m already very sick, to have a medical team, that I have a brain aneurysm and it requires immediate attention, brain surgery,” he said on-air at the time.

He went on to explain that his brain aneurysm was “not a blockage” but rather a “puncture”.

“It’s like, imagine your blood vessel is the garden hose, and the garden hose is weak and it blisters out like a big bubble, you know, like a puncture in it, like a bike tire with a big bubble that bubbles the aneurysm, so it’s not blocked,” he explained.

“It’s like, it’s expanded and if it bursts, it’s either a vegetable in the wheelchair, or dead.”

Sandilands didn’t say when he was having the surgery, though explained he would need eight weeks to recover.

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