Brain arteriovenous malformations

MT Lawton, WC Rutledge, H Kim, C Stapf… - Nature reviews disease …, 2015 - nature.com
An arteriovenous malformation is a tangle of dysplastic vessels (nidus) fed by arteries and
drained by veins without intervening capillaries, forming a high-flow, low-resistance shunt …

Treatment of brain arteriovenous malformations: a systematic review and meta-analysis

J van Beijnum, HB van der Worp, DR Buis… - Jama, 2011 - jamanetwork.com
Context Outcomes following treatment of brain arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) with
microsurgery, embolization, stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS), or combinations vary greatly …

A practical grading scale for predicting outcome after radiosurgery for arteriovenous malformations: analysis of 1012 treated patients

RM Starke, CP Yen, D Ding, JP Sheehan - Journal of neurosurgery, 2013 - thejns.org
Object The authors performed a study to review outcomes following Gamma Knife
radiosurgery for cerebral arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) and to create a practical scale …

The risk of hemorrhage after radiosurgery for cerebral arteriovenous malformations

K Maruyama, N Kawahara, M Shin… - … England Journal of …, 2005 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Angiography shows that stereotactic radiosurgery obliterates most cerebral
arteriovenous malformations after a latency period of a few years. However, the effect of this …

Stereotactic radiosurgery for brain arteriovenous malformations: evaluation of obliteration and review of associated predictors

BJ Daou, G Palmateer, BG Thompson… - Journal of Stroke and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Background High arteriovenous malformation (AVM) obliteration rates have been reported
with stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS), and multiple factors have been found to be associated …

Risk of hemorrhage from an arteriovenous malformation confirmed to have been obliterated on angiography after stereotactic radiosurgery

M Shin, N Kawahara, K Maruyama, M Tago… - Journal of …, 2005 - thejns.org
Object. Radiosurgery has been widely adopted for the treatment of cerebral arteriovenous
malformations (AVMs) in which the practical endpoint is angiographic evidence of …

Gamma Knife surgery for cerebral arteriovenous malformations in children: a 13-year experience

DHC Pan, YH Kuo, WY Guo, WY Chung… - Journal of …, 2008 - thejns.org
Object Studies on the efficacy of arteriovenous malformation (AVM) radiosurgery have
largely been conducted in the adult population. Clinically, the results may not always be …

Comparative analysis of arteriovenous malformation grading scales in predicting outcomes after stereotactic radiosurgery

BE Pollock, CB Storlie, MJ Link, SL Stafford… - Journal of …, 2017 - thejns.org
OBJECTIVE Successful stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) for the treatment of arteriovenous
malformations (AVMs) results in nidus obliteration without new neurological deficits related …

Stereotactic radiosurgery with vs. without prior embolization for brain arteriovenous malformations: a propensity score matching analysis

D Yan, Y Chen, Z Li, H Zhang, R Li, K Yuan… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Objective: Whether partial embolization could facilitate the post-stereotactic radiosurgery
(SRS) obliteration for brain arteriovenous malformations (bAVMs) remains controversial. We …

Diagnosis and management of arteriovenous malformations in children

TN Niazi, P Klimo, RCE Anderson… - Neurosurgery …, 2010 - neurosurgery.theclinics.com
Cerebral arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) are congenital lesions thought to arise
because of failure of embryogenesis during the differentiation of vascular channels into …