Can aneurysms heal by themselves?

Can aneurysms heal by themselves? Aneurysms can't heal themselves. So the natural history for an aneurysm is to grow with ongoing arterial pressure and ongoing risk factor exposure. And unfortunately there are no medicines that we can give that heal aneurysms and there's nothing that a person can do other than modify their own risk factors which can, in order to, you know, slow or cause regression of aneurysm. So the natural history of aneurysm is to get bigger. And, you know, a lot of the treatments that we're looking at at the moment in terms of the research world involve the medical management of aneurysms and risk factors which can be more aggressively modified, you know, for example, a topic of interest in recent years has been the role of diabetes and anti-diabetic medications in aneurysm as an aneurysm stabilizing agent.