Successful Treatment of Life Threatening Intracranial AVM by Endovascular Embolization in Dhaka Medical College Hospital (original) (raw)
1970, Journal of medicine
Intracranial arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) are complex tangled, dilated blood vessels in which arteries flow directly into veins without capillaries. 1 AVMs occur most often at the junction of cerebral arteries, usually within the parenchyma of the frontal-parietal region, frontal lobe, lateral cerebellum, or overlying occipital lobe. AVMs can bleed or directly compress brain tissue; seizures or ischemia may result. 1 The main cause of death in patients with cerebral arteriovenous malformations (AVM) is intraparenchymal hemorrhage. 1 This clinical event represents the first symptom in about 30-55 % of reported cases, with an annual incidence of 2-3 %. 1 AVMs cause about 2% of all hemorrhagic
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