General Hospital star Kirsten Storms to undergo brain aneurysm coiling

Kirsten Storms, the 41-year-old actor best known for playing Maxie Jones on General Hospital, said this week that she will undergo a surgical procedure to treat a brain aneurysm discovered in January during a follow-up scan. Storms announced the news on Instagram, saying the aneurysm was found while doctors were monitoring a cyst that had been removed in 2021 and that a coiling procedure to secure the aneurysm has been scheduled within the next two weeks.

Storms said she underwent a minimally invasive diagnostic procedure in January in which a camera was threaded from a catheter inserted in her leg up to her brain to evaluate the area. She said the aneurysm was not coiled at that time because the anatomy presented a slightly complex situation. Endovascular coiling, a common preventive treatment, involves guiding a soft, flexible wire into the aneurysm via catheter so the wire coils inside and helps block blood flow, reducing the risk of rupture, according to Johns Hopkins Medicine.

In her post, Storms described the discovery as frightening and wrote that it prompted changes in her life. She moved from Los Angeles to Nashville in July with her daughter, Harper, and paused regular...