Intracranial arteriovenous malformation
Classification
There is a tendency to dichotomize the arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) into ruptured or unruptured ones, as unruptured AVMs appear to have a more indolent clinical course 1) 2).
see Giant intracranial arteriovenous malformation.
see Cerebral arteriovenous malformation.
see Pediatric intracranial arteriovenous malformation.
see Posterior fossa arteriovenous malformation.
Risk Factors
Patients diagnosed with hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) are at risk of developing intracranial arteriovenous malformations (AVM).
Pathogenesis
Diagnosis
Treatment
Case series
1)
Al-Shahi R, Bhattacharya JJ, Currie DG, Papanastassiou V, Ritchie V, Roberts RC, et al.: Prospective, population-based detection of intracranial vascular malformations in adults: the Scottish Intracranial Vascular Malformation Study (SIVMS). Stroke 34:1163–1169, 2003
2)
Fiehler J, Stapf C: ARUBA—beating natural history in unruptured brain AVMs by intervention. Neuroradiology 50:465–467, 2008