Arteriovenous malformation or AVM is an abnormal connection of blood vessels in the lungs, brain, or spinal cord. This disease usually has no pronounced symptoms. As a rule, clinical manifestations ...

HOW TO TREAT Treatment choices include endovascular embolization and surgical ligation of the fistula. Embolization is less invasive but not possible in every patient, as anatomic variants may present ...

TikTok user Liz Bear virally revealed that her spinal AVM was initially misdiagnosed by doctors as sciatica when she was 36 weeks pregnant. She had to undergo several surgeries and learn how to walk ...

Spinal Arteriovenous Malformation (AVM): Cerebral Angiogram, left vertebral injection, lateral view. A large arteriovenous malformation can be seen arising from the vertebral artery (arterial feeders ...

A careful search for segmentally related cutaneous hemangiomas in a series of 28 patients with spinal-cord arteriovenous malformations revealed six with such an association, a much higher prevalence ...

Contrary to the results of a seminal study in the field, a recent analysis presented today at the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery's (SNIS) 20th Annual Meeting indicates that surgical approaches ...

A 32 year-old woman presented with the acute onset of severe neck pain followed by weakness of the left arm and both legs. Spinal Arteriovenous Malformation (AVM): Right Vertebral Angiogram; (Left) ...