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Can we stop an aneurysm from growing?
Mr Bicknell explains that aneurysms usually grow very slowly if they are small, but more quickly if they are larger. Unfortunately, there are no drugs that have been shown to slow the rate of growth. The only advice we can give is to give up smoking if you do smoke.
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Aneurysms grow very slowly when they are small and much much quicker when they are large but overall they grow about a quarter of a centimeter per year which means someone with a three centimeter aneurysm is going to wait about ten years to come to repair and someone with a five centimeter aneurysm might only have to wait a couple of years before we recommend repair and given that we've got this aneurysm screening program at the moment finding many young men with small aneurysms it would be really advantageous if we could find a way of stopping those aneurysms growing so that less people came to a size which required repair. Unfortunately it's not very simple. There are no drugs that have ever been shown to slow the rate of repair. So the only thing that we can advise to slow the rate of repair I'm afraid is to give up smoking if you're a smoker.
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