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 ...

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) ...

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 ...

Vascular neurosurgery is a subspecialty of neurosurgery. Neurosurgery refers to procedures of your brain, spine, spinal cord, and nerves (central nervous system). Vascular neurosurgeons specialize in ...

A study presented today at the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery's (SNIS) 20th Annual Meeting indicated that it may be possible to use a less invasive technique to identify the gene mutations ...

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 ...

Spinal Arteriovenous Malformation (AVM): (Left) T2-weighted sagittal MRI of the cervical spine; (Right) T2-weighted axial MRI of the cervical spine. Note the lesion that extends from C6 - T2, which is ...