Winner of the Louise Eisenhardt Traveling Scholarship, Sophia F. Shakur, MD, IFAANS, presented her research, Changes in Pulsatility and Resistance Indices of Cerebral Arteriovenous Malformation Feeder ...

Brain arteriovenous malformation (AVM) is the abnormal entanglement of arteries and veins in the brain, which disrupts the normal flow of blood and can lead to hemorrhage, seizures, and neurological ...

Embolization has different variations. These include transarterial, transvenous, and percutaneous embolization. The goal of this technique for AVM treatment is to block the blood vessel that is ...

According to the Mayo Clinic, arteriovenous malformation is "a tangle of abnormal blood vessels connecting arteries and veins in the brain." An AVM disrupts the process of the arteries carrying the ...

Arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) of the brain are intracranial tangled anastomoses of arteries and veins, without intervening capillaries, in the brain parenchyma. AVMs account for 1–2% of all ...

Brain arteriovenous malformation (AVM) is the abnormal entanglement of arteries and veins in the brain, which disrupts the normal flow of blood and can lead to hemorrhage, seizures, and neurological ...

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 ...