What treatments are available for aneurysms?

Other treatments are available for aneurysms? Okay so the main treatments for aneurysms, well there are broadly speaking three options. The first option as with all things in medicine is to do nothing and observe the aneurysm and certainly you know there's a lot of merit in doing that particularly for smaller aneurysms but generally speaking the treatments for aneurysm are surgical or interventional and again the modalities that surgeons and interventional doctors frequently use to treat aneurysms are endovascular so keyhole intervention through the arteries classically in the groin or open repair which involves you know large incisions in the abdomen or the chest. An open repair, in essence what you're trying to do when you're fixing an aneurysm is to exclude or prevent ongoing pressurisation of the aneurysm sac. So when you put a stent graft in, you divert the flow away from the actual bulk of the aneurysm through a narrower channel which is reinforced with sort of a woven polyester type of graft and stent graft material. The open repair itself is a matter of stitching that stent graft material into the aneurysm, stitching it from healthy aorta to healthy aorta, top and bottom, and and reinforcing the, creating a new channel of flow by doing that.