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I wished there was a way to detect aneurysm without the need of an MRI... maybe one day with AI and some blood pressure sensor. My condolences to his family.

• TaupeRanger 6y ago
  The problem, just as in cancer, is not detection. It's what to do once you find it. Many aneurysms/cancers that could be found will turn out to be harmless, and the risk of harming someone physically and/or psychologically from unnecessarily treating them is not negligible. There isn't much we can do for aneurysms unless they are obviously immediately threatening.
  • TheHypnotist 6y ago
    A doctor basically told my mother "The cure could be worse than the problem". So they just monitor.
  • petercooper 6y ago
    This. The risk calculations can be quite scary and people's responses to them can be poor given a powerful human dislike of uncertainty. Consider a totally fabricated and naive example of finding a minor aneurysm with a 0.1% annual risk of rupture versus a 10% risk of death during surgery.. there are many people who would take the surgery to remove the uncertainty. (And this is a highly contrived example, real life is far more complicated!)