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Cian Everett inquest: ‘Fit and healthy’ Hampshire student dies from rare brain abscess just hours after being sent home by doctors

The Independent·Will Rogers·19 days ago
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A “fit and healthy” university student died from a rare medical condition less than 24 hours after complaining of a "thunderclap" headache and being prescribed nasal spray, an inquest has heard. Cian Everett, 21, a keen rower and Politics and International Relations student, was found dead by his mother at their family home. He had described his headache as so painful it felt like he "had been hit by a pile of bricks" before being given a prescription for over-the-counter nasal spray for suspected sinusitis. Unbeknownst to medics, Mr Everett had suffered an extremely rare complication of sinusitis, affecting only one in 100,000 people. He had developed a 6cm abscess on his brain, thought to be around the same size as a snooker ball. An inquest at Winchester Coroner's Court, Hants, heard that Mr Everett that died at his parents’ home in New Milton, Hants in January 2025, from "raised intracranial pressure" due to the intracerebral abscess, and that he also experienced acute meningitis .…

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