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Strozyk D, Nogueira RG, Lavine SD. Endovascular Treatment of Intracranial Arteriovenous Malformation. Neurosurg Clin N Am 2009; 20:399-418. [PMID: 19853800 DOI: 10.1016/j.nec.2009.07.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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De Blasi R, Salvati A, Medicamento N, Chiumarulo L. Clinical Features and Classification of Brain AVMs and Cranial DAVFs. Neuroradiol J 2009; 22:568-80. [DOI: 10.1177/197140090902200510] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2009] [Accepted: 10/19/2009] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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The clinical findings of intracranial vascular malformations are strictly related to their morphologic, angioarchitectural and hemodynamic characteristics. An overall study of these features is the first step to understand the different classifications for arteriovenous malformations, dural arteriovenous fistulas and carotid-cavernous fistulas. This evaluation will also suggest the correct timing of endovascular treatment and which part of the lesion should be the target of the therapy. Conventional cerebral angiography is mandatory when a correct classification of intracranial arteriovenous malformative shunts must be achieved. The angioarchitectural classification of brain arteriovenous malformations considers all angiographic features of each component of the malformation, both morphologically and hemodynamically, and relates them to the clinical course of the disease. The correlation between clinical findings, angiographic features and classifications is even stronger for cranial dural arteriovenous fistulas, in which cortical venous drainage is typical of “aggressive” fistulas and is usually absent in the “benign” type. Similarly, carotid-cavernous fistulas can be differentiated at angiography into high or low flow lesions according to the flow rate of the shunt, and into direct or indirect fistulas, according to the origin of arterial feeders. This paper focuses on the existing relation between the hemodynamics of brain arteriovenous malformations, cranial dural arteriovenous fistulas, carotid-cavernous fistulas, and their most frequent clinical findings, through an analysis of the most widely used different classification systems.
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- R. De Blasi
- Department of Neuroradiology, Bari University Hospital; Bari, Italy
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- Department of Neuroradiology, Bari University Hospital; Bari, Italy
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- Department of Neuroradiology, Bari University Hospital; Bari, Italy
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- Department of Neuroradiology, Bari University Hospital; Bari, Italy
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Baker RP, McCarter RJ, Porter DG. Improvement in cognitive function after right temporal arteriovenous malformation excision. Br J Neurosurg 2009; 18:541-4. [PMID: 15799163 DOI: 10.1080/02688690400012459] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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A patient is presented in whom right temporal AVM excision led to improved cognitive function. Neuropsychological assessment showed a significant postoperative improvement in Performance IQ (p = < 0.05), Full Scale IQ (p = < 0.05), and clinically in visual memory (p = < 0.10). Reversal of vascular steal may lead to increases in cognitive function. We recommend that patients undergoing AVM excision have a complete neuropsychological evaluation.
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- R P Baker
- Departments of Neurosurgery and Neuropsychology, Frenchay Hospital, Bristol BS16 1LE, UK
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Assessment of cerebral arteriovenous malformations with high temporal and spatial resolution contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance angiography: a review from protocol to clinical application. Top Magn Reson Imaging 2009; 19:251-7. [PMID: 19512857 DOI: 10.1097/rmr.0b013e3181a98d5f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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The combination of high spatial and high temporal resolution contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) at 3.0 T has enabled the detailed evaluation of functional vascular anatomy and hemodynamics of cerebral arteriovenous malformations (AVMs). Key contributory technical factors for the successful implementation of MRA in patients with different vascular pathologies are multicoil and multichannel receiver arrays, which enable higher parallel acquisition at 3.0 T over a uniform and a large field of view for highly temporally and spatially resolved MRA. Magnetic resonance angiography enables both screening of patients with suspected AVMs and follow-up of patients after therapy. It allows the characterization of AVMs with respect to nidus configuration, size, venous drainage, and so on, according to the Spetzler-Martin classification.
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Moftakhar P, Hauptman JS, Malkasian D, Martin NA. Cerebral arteriovenous malformations. Part 2: physiology. Neurosurg Focus 2009; 26:E11. [PMID: 19408989 DOI: 10.3171/2009.2.focus09317] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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ObjectThe scientific understanding of the nature of arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) in the brain is evolving. It is clear from current work that AVMs can undergo a variety of phenomena, including growth, remodeling, and/or regression—and the responsible processes are both molecular and physiological. A review of these complex processes is critical to directing future therapeutic approaches. The authors performed a comprehensive review of the literature to evaluate current information regarding the genetics, pathophysiology, and behavior of AVMs.MethodsA comprehensive literature review was conducted using PubMed to reveal the angioarchitecture and cerebral hemodynamics of AVMS as they relate to lesion development.ResultsFeeding artery pressures, brain AVM compartmentalization, venous drainage, flow phenomena, and vascular steal are discussed.ConclusionsThe dynamic nature of brain AVMs is at least in part attributable to hemodynamic and flow-related phenomena. These forces acting on an evolving structure are critical to understanding the challenges in endovascular and surgical therapy. As knowledge in this field continues to progress, the natural history and predicted behavior of these AVMs will become more clearly elucidated.
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- 2Department of Neurosurgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, California
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- 2Department of Neurosurgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, California
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- 2Department of Neurosurgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, California
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Brain edema associated with unruptured brain arteriovenous malformations. Neuroradiology 2009; 51:327-35. [DOI: 10.1007/s00234-009-0500-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2008] [Accepted: 01/20/2009] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Fiehler J, Illies T, Piening M, Säring D, Forkert N, Regelsberger J, Grzyska U, Handels H, Byrne JV. Territorial and microvascular perfusion impairment in brain arteriovenous malformations. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 2009; 30:356-61. [PMID: 19001537 DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.a1351] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Both the existence and clinical relevance of a steal phenomenon in brain arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) remains a matter of debate. This study aimed to assess perfusion in the brain adjacent to brain AVMs and to relate these to macrovascular blood flow in a single measurement. MATERIALS AND METHODS Twenty consecutive patients with AVMs with a median age of 37 years were evaluated by 3T MR imaging by using 3D time-resolved MR angiography to determine blood flow and perfusion patterns. Cerebral perfusion was estimated by using an arterial spin-labeling technique in vascular territories around the nidus and in symmetric regions of interest in the ipsilateral and contralateral hemispheres. Mapping of concentric shells around the nidus was used to define the immediate and adjacent brain and relative perfusion reductions >20% of baseline, termed perinidal dip (PND). RESULTS A significant reduction in perfusion ratios between ipsilateral and contralateral hemispheres remote to the AVMs was demonstrated in the middle and posterior cerebral artery territories. PND was detected in 5 patients, and 17 patients overall showed reduced perfusion in the perinidal region on visual inspection. There was a negative correlation of the hemispheric territorial perfusion with the affected/nonaffected inflow time ratio (R = -0.402, P = .015). CONCLUSIONS The perfusion impairment in vascular territories adjacent to brain AVMs that we identified as PND may reflect the existence of 2 levels of perfusion impairment: a territorial and a microvascular perfusion disturbance. Although the hemispheric asymmetry in territorial perfusion seems the result of arterioarterial redistribution, the PND was inhomogeneously distributed within a single vascular territory and thus might result from low perfusion pressure in small arteries and arterioles.
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- J Fiehler
- Department of Neuroradiology, University Medical Center Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.
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Lantz ER, Meyers PM. Neuropsychological effects of brain arteriovenous malformations. Neuropsychol Rev 2008; 18:167-77. [PMID: 18500557 DOI: 10.1007/s11065-008-9060-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2008] [Accepted: 03/24/2008] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Brain arteriovenous malformations (AVM's) are developmental, chronic lesions that provide unique information about the human brain and can be a useful model for neuroscientists to study cerebral reorganization and hemodynamics. We review the neuroanatomy, epidemiology, natural history, imaging and treatment of brain AVMs, and provide a model with which to better understand neuropsychological functioning and brain reorganization. We suggest that future studies must exclude ruptured AVMs if they wish to further explain focal neurological/cognitive deficits associated with this neurovascular anomaly.
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- Emily R Lantz
- Department of Neurology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY 10032, USA.
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Morrison CE, Nakhutina L. Neuropsychological features of lesion-related epilepsy in adults: an overview. Neuropsychol Rev 2007; 17:385-403. [PMID: 17952606 DOI: 10.1007/s11065-007-9044-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2007] [Accepted: 10/03/2007] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Lesional epilepsy is thought to be a direct consequence of focal brain lesions of dysgenetic, neoplastic, vascular, or traumatic origin. It has been estimated that at least half of all epilepsies are the result of such lesions. The current discussion includes an overview of the cognitive and behavioral presentations in adults with epilepsy secondary to focal pathology. The neuropsychological presentation in this population is influenced by many factors, including the location and nature of the underlying lesion, seizure characteristics, the effects of treatment, and patient variables. Few studies attempt to disentangle the specific contributions of these variables to cognitive performance. However, where available studies examining the separable effects of seizure-related variables on cognitive functioning in individuals with lesional epilepsy are also reviewed. This overview includes a discussion of focal malformations of cortical and vascular development and select foreign tissue and acquired lesions.
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- Chris E Morrison
- Department of Neurology, Comprehensive Epilepsy Center, New York University Medical Center, 403 E 34th St., 4th Floor, New York, NY, 10016, USA.
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Hartmann A, Mast H, Choi JH, Stapf C, Mohr JP. Treatment of arteriovenous malformations of the brain. Curr Neurol Neurosci Rep 2007; 7:28-34. [PMID: 17217851 DOI: 10.1007/s11910-007-0018-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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The treatment of ruptured and unruptured brain arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) is driven by the need to prevent incident or recurrent intracranial hemorrhages. Improving feasibility of the rapidly developing endovascular, neurosurgical, and radiotherapeutic procedures leads to invasive treatment of an increasing number of neurologically intact patients with accidentally diagnosed AVMs. Recent data confirm that the natural history risk of unruptured AVMs is significantly lower than the risk of those presenting with rupture, and the treatment risk of invasive management of unruptured AVMs seems higher than their natural history risk. The treatment decision algorithm for these patients remains unsettled, as no randomized clinical trial data exist on the benefit of invasive AVM treatment for patients with bled or with unbled AVMs. The recently launched study A Randomized Trial of Unruptured Brain AVMs (ARUBA) will be the first trial randomizing patients with nonhemorrhaged AVMs to invasive versus conservative management.
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- Andreas Hartmann
- Stroke Unit, Department of Neurology, Charité Hochschulmedizin Berlin, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany.
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Fiorella D, Albuquerque FC, Woo HH, McDougall CG, Rasmussen PA. The role of neuroendovascular therapy for the treatment of brain arteriovenous malformations. Neurosurgery 2007; 59:S163-77; discussion S3-13. [PMID: 17053600 DOI: 10.1227/01.neu.0000237544.20452.47] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Neuroendovascular embolization represents a critical component of the multidisciplinary management of cerebral arteriovenous malformations. Safe and effective embolization may be performed only in the context of a well-designed, rational treatment plan that is fundamentally based on a clear understanding of the natural history of the lesion, as well as the cumulative risks of multimodality treatment. This article outlines the role of neuroendovascular embolization in arteriovenous malformation therapy with a specific emphasis on decision making in the context of formulating a treatment plan. The authors also provide a summary of the available embolic agents and their technical application, potential intraprocedural and periprocedural complications, and postprocedural management.
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- David Fiorella
- Department of Neuroradiology, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA.
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Maruyama K, Shin M, Tago M, Kishimoto J, Morita A, Kawahara N. RADIOSURGERY TO REDUCE THE RISK OF FIRST HEMORRHAGE FROM BRAIN ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS. Neurosurgery 2007; 60:453-8; discussion 458-9. [PMID: 17327789 DOI: 10.1227/01.neu.0000255341.03157.00] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE
It remains unclear whether or not and to what extent stereotactic radiosurgery can reduce the risk of first intracranial hemorrhage from brain arteriovenous malformations.
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We performed a retrospective observational investigation of 500 patients with arteriovenous malformations who were treated with gamma knife radiosurgery. The risk of first hemorrhage was analyzed using the Cox proportional-hazards model with age at radiosurgery and angiographic obliteration included as time-dependent covariates. Three periods were defined: from birth to radiosurgery (before radiosurgery); from radiosurgery to angiographic obliteration (latency period); and from angiographic obliteration to end of the follow-up period (after obliteration).
RESULTS
Hemorrhage was documented before radiosurgery in 318 patients (median observation period, 30.0 yr), during the latency period in 11 patients (median observation period, 2.2 yr), and after obliteration in two patients (median observation period, 5.5 yr). Compared with the period before radiosurgery, the risk of hemorrhage decreased by 86% after obliteration (hazard ratio, 0.14; 95% confidence interval, 0.03–0.55; P = 0.005), whereas the reduction observed during the latency period was not statistically significant (hazard ratio, 0.56; 95% confidence interval, 0.31–1.04; P = 0.07). Irrespective of obliteration, the risk of hemorrhage decreased by 62% after radiosurgery (hazard ratio, 0.38; 95% confidence interval, 0.22–0.67; P = 0.001). Similar results were observed when the 33 patients who had undergone previous therapy were excluded from the analysis.
CONCLUSION
Stereotactic radiosurgery significantly reduces the risk of first hemorrhage from brain arteriovenous malformations. The extent of the decrease might be greater if angiography indicates the evidence of obliteration.
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- Keisuke Maruyama
- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Tokyo Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
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Biondi A, Le Jean L, Capelle L, Duffau H, Marsault C. Fatal hemorrhagic complication following endovascular treatment of a cerebral arteriovenous malformation. J Neuroradiol 2006; 33:96-104. [PMID: 16733423 DOI: 10.1016/s0150-9861(06)77238-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Evaluation of the natural history of brain Arteriovenous Malformations (AVMs) including its morbidity and mortality is a crucial point in the management of patients having a cerebral AVM. The risks associated with the AVM natural history, especially regarding the occurrence of an hemorrhage, have to be compared to the risks due to the therapeutic approach. In the literature, the risk of annual bleeding of an AVM is estimated from 2 to 4%. Morbidity from AVM rupture is estimated from 13% to 50% with a risk of mortality reported from 3 to 30%. Endovascular treatment is an efficient tool in the therapy of these lesions. However, AVM embolization remains a difficult procedure. Complications of the endovascular treatment must be evaluated in relation to the potential risk associated to the AVM natural history. After AVM endovascular treatment, morbidity with permanent neurological deficit is reported in 0.4% to 12.5% of patients and mortality in 0.4% to 7.5%. In more recent reports, after brain AVM embolization, a permanent neurological deficit is estimated to occur in 9% of patients and death in 2%. Hemorrhage appears the most frequent and serious complication in the endovascular treatment of a brain AVM. We report a case of fatal hemorrhagic complication following endovascular treatment of a cerebral AVM in a 20 year old patient. This case contributes to remind that embolization, even in specialized centers with experience in the management of this pathology, can be followed by a poor and even fatal outcome. In most cases, the treatment is performed in order to protect the patient of a potential risk. Consequently, the complication of the embolization must always be carefully considered and discussed between the medical team, the patient and its family for planning the AVM endovascular treatment.
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- A Biondi
- Department of Neuroradiology, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, University of Paris VI.
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BACKGROUND Brain arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) are the single most common cause of intracerebral haemorrhage in young adults. Brain AVMs also cause seizure(s) and focal neurological deficits (in the absence of haemorrhage, migraine or an epileptic seizure); approximately one fifth are incidental discoveries. Various interventions are used in an attempt to eradicate brain AVMs: neurosurgical excision, stereotactic radiotherapy/'radiosurgery' (using gamma knife, linear accelerator or proton beam), endovascular embolisation (using glues, particles, fibres, coils, or balloons), and staged combinations of these interventions. OBJECTIVES To assess the clinical effects of interventions to treat brain AVMs in adults (with the aim of either partial obliteration or total eradication), using data published in randomised controlled trials. SEARCH STRATEGY We searched: (1) the Cochrane Stroke Group Register (last searched December 2004); (2) medical literature databases (MEDLINE 1966 to 31 December 2004 and EMBASE 1980 to 31 December 2004); (3) on-line and paper journal surveillance; (4) the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) (The Cochrane Library Issue 1, 2005); (5) international registers of clinical trials; (6) bibliographies of relevant articles identified by (1) to (5); and (7) we sought unpublished data from manufacturers of interventional treatments for brain AVMs. SELECTION CRITERIA We sought randomised trials of any or all of the interventions for brain AVMs, compared against each other or against usual medical therapy, with relevant clinical outcome measures. DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS Two authors independently applied the inclusion criteria and reviewed the relevant studies. MAIN RESULTS We did not find any randomised trials meeting our selection criteria. We found two randomised trials which tested the equivalence of two embolic agents for the pre-operative embolisation of brain AVMs (one published, one unpublished), but none of the primary or secondary outcome measures in these trials met our desired criteria; although important clinical outcomes were reported, meaningful comparison of the two treatment arms was impossible. We also excluded a third RCT which studied three different blood pressure lowering treatments to induce deliberate hypotension during surgical resection of brain AVMs, because the intervention was not the focus of this review. AUTHORS' CONCLUSIONS There is no evidence from randomised trials with clear clinical outcomes, comparing different interventional treatments for brain AVMs against each other or against usual medical therapy, to guide the interventional treatment of brain AVMs in adults. One such trial (ARUBA), comparing interventional versus conservative management for unruptured brain AVMs, is being planned.
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- R Al-Shahi
- University of Edinburgh, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Bramwell Dott Building, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, Midlothian, UK, EH4 2XU.
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Nakagawa I, Kawaguchi S, Iida J, Hirabayashi H, Sakaki T. Postoperative hyperperfusion associated with steal phenomenon caused by a small arteriovenous malformation. Neurol Med Chir (Tokyo) 2005; 45:363-6. [PMID: 16041183 DOI: 10.2176/nmc.45.363] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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A 41-year-old woman presented with a small occipital arteriovenous malformation (AVM) manifesting as headache. Cerebral angiography showed an AVM in the right occipital lobe fed by the right temporooccipital artery and draining into the superior sagittal sinus and right transverse sinus. Single photon emission computed tomography showed the steal phenomenon in the ipsilateral temporal cortex fed by the main feeding artery preoperatively, and hyperperfusion in the same cortex after removal of the AVM. Postoperative systolic blood pressure was maintained between 100 and 120 mmHg to avoid disastrous hemorrhagic complications. Cerebral blood flow evaluation before and after surgery is important to avoid postoperative disastrous complications even in patients with small AVM.
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Arteriovenous malformations of the brain (AMB) can cause stroke when they rupture. Epidemiological and imaging research has found that about 50% of patients with AMB present with haemorrhage, and the other 50% either present with non-focal symptoms, such as headache, seizure, or focal neurological deficit, or have no symptoms and the lesion is found during unrelated investigations. Treatment for arteriovenous malformations aims to prevent and resolve haemorrhage and is a growing interdisciplinary challenge. Although treatment uses enormous resources, there have been few studies on the risk-benefit ratios for treatment of unruptured AMB and the best approaches.
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Pierot L, Cognard C, Spelle L. [Cerebral arteriovenous malformations: evaluation of the hemorrhagic risk and its morbidity]. J Neuroradiol 2005; 31:369-75. [PMID: 15687954 DOI: 10.1016/s0150-9861(04)97018-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Evaluation of the hemorrhagic risk associated with intracranial arteriovenous malformation is a keypoint question for physicians involved in the management of these patients. Indeed, this hemorrhagic risk including its morbid-mortality consequences has to be balanced with the therapeutic risk. All the published studies have estimated the annual bleeding risk between 2 to 4%; a first hemorrhagic event is associated with an increased risk of a new bleeding. Mortality associated with AVM bleeding is estimated between 10 to 15%, with a 50% risk of morbidity. Factors associated with an increased risk of bleeding include existence of aneurysms (intranidal or flow related pedicular, proximal or distal) and some venous drainage patterns such as deep venous drainage or venous stenosis.
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- L Pierot
- Service de Radiologie, Hôpital Maison-Blanche, 45 rue Cognacq-Jay, 51092 REIMS Cedex, France.
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Cockroft KM, Hwang SK, Rosenwasser RH. Endovascular treatment of cerebral arteriovenous malformations: indications, techniques, outcome, and complications. Neurosurg Clin N Am 2005; 16:367-80, x. [PMID: 15694168 DOI: 10.1016/j.nec.2004.08.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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- Kevin M Cockroft
- Department of Neurosurgery, MC H110, M.S. Hershey Medical Center, Pennsylvania State University, PO Box 850, Hershey, PA 17033, USA
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The lesions to be considered in this course on cerebrovascular malformations are arteriovenous malformations of the brain, cavernous malformations, capillary telangiectasia and dural arteriovenous fistulas.
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- J V Byrne
- Department of Neuroradiology, Nuffield Department of Surgery, Radcliffe Infirmary, Woodstock Road, Oxford, Oxon, OX2 9HE, UK.
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Secca MF, Vilela P, Ferreira JL, Lopes FC, Goulão A. Endovascular Pressure Measurements: Validation with a Pulsatile Flow Model and Haemodynamic Assessment of Brain AVMs. Interv Neuroradiol 2004; 10:281-91. [PMID: 20587211 PMCID: PMC3463287 DOI: 10.1177/159101990401000401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2004] [Accepted: 11/07/2004] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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SUMMARY Intravascular pressure measurements for several types of endovascular catheters were obtained in an in vitro model to validate the pressure readings obtained during the interventional procedures of brain AVM embolization. An experimental model was used where the beat rate, flow and pressures were as close as possible to the average human values of interest. It is shown that the corrections increase with the decreasing inner diameter of the catheter used and with increasing vascular pressure. We have also shown that there were no differences between measurements made with the catheter in the direction of flow or against it. An average pressure reading corrections for the various microcatheters to compensate the readings obtained during in vivo monitoring is presented. The haemodynamic assessment of 81 brain AVMs was performed using the endovascular measurement of arterial pressure in 389 feeding arteries during embolization. Mostly, the feeders' arterial median pressure was half the systemic arterial pressure but there was a wide variability of AV shunts in brain AVMs not only from one brain AVM to another but also within the same brain AVM. Measurement of arterial feeder pressure is an inexpensive, quick and accurate tool to evaluate the type of AV shunts within brain AVM.
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- M Forjaz Secca
- Physics Department, Science and Technology Faculty (CeFITeC), Lisbon University (Univ. Nova de Lisboa, UNL); Portugal -
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Ulmer JL, Hacein-Bey L, Mathews VP, Mueller WM, DeYoe EA, Prost RW, Meyer GA, Krouwer HG, Schmainda KM. Lesion-induced pseudo-dominance at functional magnetic resonance imaging: implications for preoperative assessments. Neurosurgery 2004; 55:569-79; discussion 580-1. [PMID: 15335424 DOI: 10.1227/01.neu.0000134384.94749.b2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 141] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2003] [Accepted: 04/07/2004] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE To illustrate how lesion-induced neurovascular uncoupling at functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) can mimic hemispheric dominance opposite the side of a lesion preoperatively. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed preoperative fMRI mapping data from 50 patients with focal brain abnormalities to establish patterns of hemispheric dominance of language, speech, visual, or motor system functions. Abnormalities included gliomas (31 patients), arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) (11 patients), other congenital lesions (4 patients), encephalomalacia (3 patients), and tumefactive encephalitis (1 patient). A laterality ratio of fMRI hemispheric dominance was compared with actual hemispheric dominance as verified by electrocortical stimulation, Wada testing, postoperative and posttreatment deficits, and/or lesion-induced deficits. fMRI activation maps were generated with cross-correlation (P < 0.001) or t test (P < 0.001) analysis. RESULTS In 50 patients, a total of 85 functional areas were within 5 mm of the edge of a potentially resectable lesion. In 23 of these areas (27%), reduced fMRI signal in perilesional eloquent cortex in conjunction with preserved or increased signal in homologous contralateral brain areas revealed functional dominance opposite the side of the lesion. This suggested possible lesion-induced transhemispheric cortical reorganization to homologous brain regions (homotopic reorganization). In seven patients, however, the fMRI data were inconsistent with other methods of functional localization. In two patients with left inferior frontal gyrus gliomas and in one patient with focal tumefactive meningoencephalitis, fMRI incorrectly suggested strong right hemispheric speech dominance. In two patients with lateral precentral gyrus region gliomas and one patient with a left central sulcus AVM, the fMRI pattern incorrectly suggested primary corticobulbar motor dominance contralateral to the side of the lesion. In a patient with a right superior frontal gyrus AVM, fMRI revealed pronounced left dominant supplementary motor area activity in response to a bilateral complex motor task, but right superior frontal gyrus perilesional hemorrhage and edema subsequently caused left upper-extremity plegia. Pathophysiological factors that might have caused neurovascular uncoupling and facilitated pseudo-dominance at fMRI in these patients included direct tumor infiltration, neovascularity, cerebrovascular inflammation, and AVM-induced hemodynamic effects. Sixteen patients had proven (1 patient), probable (2 patients), or possible (13 patients) but unproven lesion-induced homotopic cortical reorganization. CONCLUSION Lesion-induced neurovascular uncoupling causing reduced fMRI signal in perilesional eloquent cortex, in conjunction with normal or increased activity in homologous brain regions, may simulate hemispheric dominance and lesion-induced homotopic cortical reorganization.
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- John L Ulmer
- Division of Neuroradiology, Department of Radiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
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Ducreux D, Desal H, Bittoun J, Mikulis D, Terbrugge K, Lasjaunias P. [Diffusion, perfusion and activation functional MRI studies of brain arteriovenous malformations]. J Neuroradiol 2004; 31:25-34. [PMID: 15026729 DOI: 10.1016/s0150-9861(04)96876-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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The management of Brain Arteriovenous Malformations continues to be challenged by a lack of understanding and control of pathophysiological processes implied in the clinical symptoms. New data from functional MRI with diffusion-weighted, perfusion-weighted and neuronal activation highlight abnormal brain areas near or remote to the AVM nidus. Moreover, these techniques are able to show hemodynamic and neuronal adaptative phenomena involved in brain plasticity. They reflect the instantaneous hemodynamic brain conditions that may help to correlate the clinical symptoms with the anatomical and functional substratum and to influence any invasive therapy.
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- D Ducreux
- Service de Neuroradiologie, CHU de Bicêtre, Université Paris XI, Le Kremlin Bicêtre, France.
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Festa JR, Lazar RM, Marshall RS, Pile-Spellman J, Chong JY, Duong H. Dural arteriovenous fistula presents like an ischemic stroke. Cogn Behav Neurol 2004; 17:50-3. [PMID: 15209225 DOI: 10.1097/00146965-200403000-00006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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OBJECTIVE We report the case of a patient with a dural arteriovenous fistula whose neurobehavioral syndrome was indistinguishable from that of an ischemic stroke. BACKGROUND Case studies of dural arteriovenous fistulas primarily describe global cognitive changes like dementia, but detailed neurocognitive evaluations of dural arteriovenous fistula patients are rarely reported. METHOD We provide a dural arteriovenous fistula case of a patient who presented with aphasia and other symptoms of stroke. Background history, serial neuropsychological data, and angiographic images are presented. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS Serial neurocognitive data show the extent to which cognitive deficits are reversed with embolization. The case demonstrates that the mechanisms underlying neurocognitive deficits are specific to the fistula's unique hemodynamic features in addition to the location of the dural arteriovenous fistula.
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- Joanne R Festa
- Department of Neurology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, USA.
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Ducreux D, Meder JF, Fredy D, Bittoun J, Lasjaunias P. MR perfusion imaging in proliferative angiopathy. Neuroradiology 2004; 46:105-12. [PMID: 14726982 DOI: 10.1007/s00234-003-1045-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2002] [Accepted: 03/20/2003] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Seizures, which may be the main expression of cerebral arteriovenous malformations (CAVM) can be difficult to control medically. Our goal was to use perfusion-weighted imaging (PWI) in correlation with clinical data to detect abnormal areas of the cerebrum related to a particular type of CAVM (proliferative angiopathy) and to study the pathophysiology. We use PWI, with a bolus injection of contrast medium, to investigate seven patients with proliferative angiopathy and fits producing language disturbance. Perfusion parameters were calculated using the first-pass moment theory. Five patients had perimalformative and/or contralateral abnormal areas with relative hyperperfusion (cerebral blood volume +20.7+/-16.2%, blood flow 92.5+/-68.8 ml/min/100 g). Areas of hypoperfusion and venous congestion were detected in two patients. One patient who underwent MRI after a severe focal deficit had no significant haemodynamic abnormality.
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- D Ducreux
- Neuroradiology Department, CHU de Bicêtre, Paris XI University, 78 rue du Gènèral Leclerc, 94270, Le Kremlin Bicêtre, France.
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Mohr J, Hartmann A, Mast H, Pile-Spellman J, Schumacher HC, Stapf C. Arteriovenous Malformations and Other Vascular Anomalies. Stroke 2004. [DOI: 10.1016/b0-44-306600-0/50019-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Marshall GA, Jonker BP, Morgan MK, Taylor AJ. Prospective study of neuropsychological and psychosocial outcome following surgical excision of intracerebral arteriovenous malformations. J Clin Neurosci 2003; 10:42-7. [PMID: 12464520 DOI: 10.1016/s0967-5868(02)00217-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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In this prospective study the neuropsychological and psychosocial function of 64 patients undergoing surgical resection of cerebral arteriovenous malformations was examined prior to surgery (T1), one month post-surgery (T2) and one year post-surgery (T3). A mild but widespread cognitive decline was observed pre-operatively. There was a trend toward decreased neuropsychological function at T2. All neuropsychological tests showed a trend toward improvement at T3 compared with both pre-operative (generally not statistically significant) and early post-operative values (generally significant). Patients were assessed for change between testing times. At T2 patients were more likely to have deteriorated than improved, whereas at T3 the group which had altered from baseline were more likely to have improved than deteriorated. Deterioration in some verbal/language tasks was more common for left sided AVMs. Outcome did not differ significantly for patients presenting with haemorrhage. Psychosocial function was unchanged at late follow-up for the majority of patients.
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Hai J, Ding M, Guo Z, Wang B. A new rat model of chronic cerebral hypoperfusion associated with arteriovenous malformations. J Neurosurg 2002; 97:1198-202. [PMID: 12450044 DOI: 10.3171/jns.2002.97.5.1198] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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OBJECT A new experimental model of chronic cerebral hypoperfusion was developed to study the effects of systemic arterial shunting and obstruction of the primary vessel that drains intracranial venous blood on cerebral perfusion pressure (CPP), as well as cerebral pathological changes during restoration of normal perfusion pressure. METHODS Twenty-four Sprague-Dawley rats were randomly assigned to either a sham-operated group, an arteriovenous fistula (AVF) group, or a model group (eight rats each). The animal model was readied by creating a fistula through an end-to-side anastomosis between the right distal external jugular vein (EJV) and the ipsilateral common carotid artery (CCA), followed by ligation of the left vein draining the transverse sinus and bilateral external carotid arteries. Systemic mean arterial pressure (MAP), draining vein pressure (DVP), and CPP were monitored and compared among the three groups preoperatively, immediately postoperatively, and again 90 days later. Following occlusion of the fistula after a 90-day interval, blood-brain barrier (BBB) disruption and water content in the right cortical tissues of the middle cerebral artery territory were confirmed and also quantified with transmission electron microscopy. Formation of a fistula resulted in significant decreases in MAP and CPP, and a significant increase in DVP in the AVF and model groups. Ninety days later, there were still significant increases in DVP and decreases in CPP in the model group compared with the other groups (p < 0.05). Damage to the BBB and brain edema were noted in animals in the model group during restoration of normal perfusion pressure by occlusion of the fistula. Electron microscopy studies revealed cerebral vasogenic edema and/or hemorrhage in various amounts, which correlated with absent astrocytic foot processes surrounding some cerebral capillaries. CONCLUSIONS The results demonstrated that an end-to-side anastomosis between the distal EJV and CCA can induce a decrease in CPP, whereas a further chronic state of cerebral hypoperfusion may be caused by venous outflow restriction, which is associated with perfusion pressure breakthrough. This animal model conforms to the basic hemodynamic characteristics of human cerebral arteriovenous malformations.
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- Jian Hai
- Department of Neurosurgery, Tongji Hospital, Tongji University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China.
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Sekhon LH, Morgan MK. Steal Affecting the Central Nervous System. Neurosurgery 2002. [DOI: 10.1227/00006123-200209000-00064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Meyer B, Stoffel M, Stuer C, Schaller C, Muhlbauer B, Schramm J. Norepinephrine in the Rat Cortex before and after Occlusion of Chronic Arteriovenous Fistulae: A Microdialysis Study in an Animal Model of Cerebral Arteriovenous Malformations. Neurosurgery 2002. [DOI: 10.1227/00006123-200209000-00028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Norepinephrine in the Rat Cortex before and after Occlusion of Chronic Arteriovenous Fistulae: A Microdialysis Study in an Animal Model of Cerebral Arteriovenous Malformations. Neurosurgery 2002. [DOI: 10.1097/00006123-200209000-00028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Steal Affecting the Central Nervous System. Neurosurgery 2002. [DOI: 10.1097/00006123-200209000-00064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Lehéricy S, Biondi A, Sourour N, Vlaicu M, du Montcel ST, Cohen L, Vivas E, Capelle L, Faillot T, Casasco A, Le Bihan D, Marsault C. Arteriovenous brain malformations: is functional MR imaging reliable for studying language reorganization in patients? Initial observations. Radiology 2002; 223:672-82. [PMID: 12034934 DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2233010792] [Citation(s) in RCA: 108] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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PURPOSE To determine whether the blood flow abnormalities frequently associated with arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) can alter functional magnetic resonance (MR) imaging evaluation of language lateralization and whether reorganization of language function occurs in patients with brain AVMs. MATERIALS AND METHODS Eleven patients with left-hemisphere brain AVMs and 10 age-matched control subjects were examined with 1.5-T blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) functional MR imaging. Verbal fluency, sentence repetition, and story listening tasks were performed. The functional MR imaging laterality index in the frontal and temporal lobes was defined as the (L - R)/(L + R) ratio, where L and R are the numbers of activated pixels in the left and right hemispheres, respectively. Statistical analyses were performed with Wilcoxon signed rank, Fisher exact, and Kruskal-Wallis tests. RESULTS Control subjects had left-sided language dominance, although symmetric pixel counts were observed in the frontal lobes in two subjects and in the temporal lobes in one subject. Six patients had left-sided language dominance similar to that observed in control subjects. Five of these patients had AVMs outside frontal or temporal language areas, without flow abnormalities. Five patients had abnormally right-sided asymmetric indexes (below mean control subject value - 2 SDs), which suggested language reorganization (P <.05). Results of Wada examination and/or postembolization functional MR imaging performed in two of these patients showed that the abnormal laterality indexes were at least partly due to severe flow abnormalities that impaired detection of BOLD MR imaging signal intensity. CONCLUSION These data suggest that flow abnormalities may interfere with language lateralization assessment with functional MR imaging.
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- Stéphane Lehéricy
- Department of Neuroradiology, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, 47 Boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris, France.
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Taylor CL, Selman WR, Ratcheson RA. Steal affecting the central nervous system. Neurosurgery 2002; 50:679-88; discussion 688-9. [PMID: 11904017 DOI: 10.1097/00006123-200204000-00002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2001] [Accepted: 11/15/2001] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Steal is a pathophysiological process in which increased blood flow through a low-resistance vascular bed is sufficient to divert flow away from a region of the central nervous system. Three disease states in which steal may cause neurological deficits due to central nervous system ischemia are reviewed. Subclavian steal occurs when stenosis of the subclavian artery proximal to the vertebral origin causes retrograde flow in the left vertebral artery. Patients with anatomic subclavian steal usually do not develop neurological symptoms but may rarely present with posterior circulation ischemia. Arteriovenous malformations alter cerebral blood flow patterns and regional perfusion pressure. It has been hypothesized that cerebral arteriovenous malformations may cause neurological deficits due to steal and that these deficits may be cured with arteriovenous malformation treatment. Intra-arterial pressure measurements and transcranial velocity studies show regional hemodynamic alterations. However, these changes have not been correlated with presenting symptoms. Evidence from single-photon emission computed tomography does suggest a relationship between regional hypoperfusion and neurological deficits. Coarctation of the aorta may divert flow from the spinal cord circulation through intercostal arteries distal to the stenosis. This is a possible but unproven mechanism of myelopathology. Steal syndromes may be amenable to treatment by open surgical or endovascular approaches. Experimental studies of the pathophysiology of steal are strengthened by precise definitions of the measured parameters and innovative applications of technology.
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- Christopher L Taylor
- Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, Texas 75390-8855, USA.
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Al-Shahi R, Warlow CP. Interventions for treating brain arteriovenous malformations in adults. THE COCHRANE DATABASE OF SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS 2002. [DOI: 10.1002/14651858.cd003436] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Lazar RM. Neuropsychological function and brain arteriovenous malformations: redefining eloquence as a risk for treatment. Neurosurg Focus 2001; 11:e4. [PMID: 16466236 DOI: 10.3171/foc.2001.11.5.5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) of the brain, thought to begin during fetal development and undergo an unclear maturation process; most often do not become symptomatic until the patient reaches adulthood. Authors of recent prospective studies have suggested that relatively few patients present with neuropsychological abnormalities in the absence of hemorrhage. In general, neuropsychological evaluations in patients with AVMs have yielded mixed results with respect to localization of function, and the authors of most cognitive studies have not been able to demonstrate the nature and degree of impairment seen in acute ischemic stroke in comparable brain regions. Superselective Wada testing prior to therapeutic embolization, functional imaging studies, and intrasurgical cortical mapping have shown redistribution of language and memory to unpredictable regions. Developmental cognitive history in these patients indicates that most will have at least some background of learning problems during the school-age years with varying degrees of severity, reflecting a time when brain reorganization may be occurring. These data suggest that traditional assumptions about the eloquence of brain regions may not hold for patients with AVMs and that establishing treatment risk in the individual patient needs to be made on an empirical basis.
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- R M Lazar
- Department of Neurology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York, USA.
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Stapf C, Mohr JP, Pile-Spellman J, Solomon RA, Sacco RL, Connolly ES. Epidemiology and natural history of arteriovenous malformations. Neurosurg Focus 2001; 11:e1. [PMID: 16466233 DOI: 10.3171/foc.2001.11.5.2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 104] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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The epidemiology and natural history of cerebral arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) remains incompletely elucidated. Several factors are responsible. With regard to the incidence and prevalence of AVMs, the results of prior studies have suffered because of the retrospective design, the use of nonspecific ICD-9 codes, and a focus on small genetically isolated populations. Recent data from the New York Islands AVM Hemorrhage Study, an ongoing, prospective, population-based survey determining the incidence of AVM-related hemorrhage and the associated rates of morbidity and mortality in a zip code–defined population of 10 million people, suggests that the AVM detection rate is 1.21/100,000 person-years (95% confidence interval [CI] 1.02–1.42) and the incidence of AVM-hemorrhage is 0.42/100,000 person-years (95% CI 0.32–0.55). Contemporaneous data from the Northern Manhattan Stroke Study, a prospective, longitudinal population-based study of nearly 150,000 patients in which the focus is to define the incidence of stroke, suggest the crude incidence for first-ever AVM-related hemorrhage to be 0.55/100,000 person-years (95% CI 0.11–1.61). Efforts are ongoing to study the natural history of both ruptured and unruptured AVMs in these datasets to examine the relevance of prior studies of patients selected for conservative follow up in Finland. In addition, data are being gathered to determine whether risk factors for future hemorrhage, which have previously been established in small case series, are valid when applied to whole populations. Together, these data should help inform therapeutic decisionmaking.
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- C Stapf
- Columbia Arteriovenous Malformation Study Project, Department of Neurology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York 10032, USA
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In the optimum anesthetic management of patients with cerebral arteriovenous malformations (AVMs), the anesthesiologist should be familiar with the general pathophysiology of these lesions and various strategies for treatment. In this review, the authors outline these issues with special attention to cerebral hemodynamic changes induced by AVMs and their resection.
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- T Hashimoto
- Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, Center for Cerebrovascular Research, University of California, San Francisco, California 94110, USA
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Osipov A, Koennecke HC, Hartmann A, Young WL, Pile-Spellman J, Hacein-Bey L, Mohr JP, Mast H. Seizures in cerebral arteriovenous malformations: type, clinical course, and medical management. Interv Neuroradiol 2001; 3:37-41. [PMID: 20678370 DOI: 10.1177/159101999700300104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/1997] [Accepted: 01/20/1997] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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SUMMARY We investigated the type and early clinical course of seizure disorders in cerebral arteriovenous malformations (AVMs). Decisions on invasive treatment for AVMs depend on detailed knowledge of the natural course and prognosis of neurologic sequelae. Among 328 patients of a prospective cerebral AVM databank 92 (28%) presented with seizures unrelated to haemorrhage. Under a median observation time of 2.2 years (mean 3.8 years) the 92 patients received 454 follow-up examinations (median time interval 4.6 months). All patients were treated with anticonvulsant medication. During the observation period sixty (65%) patients received staged endovascular glue embolisation. The effect of staged embolisation on seizure recurrence was tested univariately by comparing patients undergoing embolisation versus those without endovascular treatment. At the time of enrolment in the database, elementary (motor or sensory) and partial complex seizures were described in twenty (22 %) and one (1%) patients, respectively. Generalized seizures without focal initiation were reported in sixty (65%) and with focal initiation in 11 (12%) patients. 57 (62%) cases had suffered a seizure as a first single event, ten (11%) had weekly, 17 (19%) monthly, and eight (9%) patients had seizures once per year. In the following clinical course, complete cessation of seizure activity was seen in 69 (75%). Ten (11%) patients continued to have seizures at a rate of once per year or less. 13 (14%) cases continued to have weekly to monthly events with only four (4%) of them showing (monthly) grand mal. An early beneficial effect of staged embolisation on seizure recurrence was not observed. Seizure disorders in cerebral AVMs show a benign early course, leaving few patients with insufficient seizure control. The differential longterm effect of invasive AVM treatment on seizure control should be subject to clinical trials.
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- A Osipov
- Department of Neuroanesthesia, Columbia-Presbyterian, Medical Center; New York, NY, USA
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Warren DJ, Hoggard N, Walton L, Radatz MWR, Kemeny AA, Forster DMC, Wilkinson ID, Griffiths PD. Cerebral Arteriovenous Malformations: Comparison of Novel Magnetic Resonance Angiographic Techniques and Conventional Catheter Angiography. Neurosurgery 2001. [DOI: 10.1227/00006123-200105000-00001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Cerebral Arteriovenous Malformations: Comparison of Novel Magnetic Resonance Angiographic Techniques and Conventional Catheter Angiography. Neurosurgery 2001. [DOI: 10.1097/00006123-200105000-00001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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To investigate the potential of novel magnetic resonance (MR) angiographic techniques for the assessment of cerebral arteriovenous malformations.
METHODS
Forty patients who were about to undergo stereotactic radiosurgery were prospectively recruited. Three-dimensional, sliding-slab interleaved ky (SLINKY), time-of-flight acquisition was performed, as was a dynamic MR digital subtraction angiography (DSA) procedure in which single thick slices (6–10 cm) were obtained using a radiofrequency spoiled Fourier-acquired steady-state sequence (1 image/s). Sixty images were acquired, in two or three projections, during passage of a 6- to 10-ml bolus of gadolinium chelate. Subtraction and postprocessing were performed, and images were viewed in an inverted cine mode. SLINKY time-of-flight acquisition was repeated after the administration of gadolinium. Routine stereotactic conventional catheter angiography was performed after MR imaging. All images were assessed (in a blinded randomized manner) for Spetzler-Martin grading and determination of associated vascular pathological features.
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Forty-one arteriovenous malformations were assessed in 40 patients. Contrast-enhanced (CE) SLINKY MR angiography was the most consistent MR imaging technique, yielding a 95% correlation with the Spetzler-Martin classification defined by conventional catheter angiography; MR DSA exhibited 90% agreement, and SLINKY MR angiography exhibited 81% agreement. CE SLINKY MR angiography provided improved nidus delineation, compared with non-CE SLINKY MR angiography. Dynamic information from MR DSA significantly improved the observation of early-draining veins and associated aneurysms.
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CE SLINKY MR angiographic assessment of cerebral arteriovenous malformations offers significant advantages, compared with the use of non-CE SLINKY MR angiography, including improved nidus demonstration. MR DSA shows promise as a noninvasive method for dynamic angiography but is presently restricted by limitations in both temporal and spatial resolution.
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Lazar RM, Marshall RS, Pile-Spellman J, Duong HC, Mohr JP, Young WL, Solomon RL, Perera GM, DeLaPaz RL. Interhemispheric transfer of language in patients with left frontal cerebral arteriovenous malformation. Neuropsychologia 2000; 38:1325-32. [PMID: 10869575 DOI: 10.1016/s0028-3932(00)00054-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Cerebral arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) are frequently evaluated before therapeutic embolization by superselective injection of anesthetics into individual arterial branches so as to determine whether permanent occlusion would affect eloquent function. In Experiment 1, we used this adaptation of the Wada procedure to study three right-handed adult patients with left frontal cerebral AVMs by injecting vessels in Wernicke's and Broca's areas, respectively, and assessing language functions. The results showed that superselective testing in the inferior division of the left MCA in all three patients produced a dense Wernicke's aphasia. Injections into the left frontal regions, however, resulted in right paresis in all patients, but no language deficits including no loss of fluency. In Experiment 2, Patient 2 underwent fMRI activation for spontaneous word-list generation using multi-slice echo planar BOLD techniques at 1.5 Tesla. A voxel-by-voxel comparison of rest vs activation for each task was performed with a Z-score threshold of 2.5 SD for activated voxels. There was activation in the right hemisphere in the insula, frontal operculum pars opercularis, and inferior frontal gyrus, an area homologous to Broca's area in the left hemisphere. There was also activation in the left hemisphere in the Rolandic region, but language function was unaffected during Wada testing in this area. These data suggested that features of expressive language were no longer controlled by the left frontal lobe where the AVM was located, and provided new evidence for interhemispheric re-organization under conditions of chronic neurovascular disease.
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- R M Lazar
- Department of Neurology, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, NY, New York, USA.
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Berman MF, Sciacca RR, Pile-Spellman J, Stapf C, Connolly ES, Mohr JP, Young WL. The epidemiology of brain arteriovenous malformations. Neurosurgery 2000; 47:389-96; discussion 397. [PMID: 10942012 DOI: 10.1097/00006123-200008000-00023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 165] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE Common estimates of the prevalence rate for pial arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) of the brain vary widely, and their accuracy is questionable. Our objective was to critically review the original sources from which these rates were derived and to establish best estimates for both the incidence and prevalence of the disease. METHODS We reviewed all of the relevant original literature: autopsy series, the Cooperative Study of Intracranial Aneurysms and Subarachnoid Hemorrhage and related analyses, and other population-based studies. We also modeled the confidence intervals of estimates for a process of low prevalence such as AVMs. RESULTS Many of the prevalence estimates (500-600/100,000 population) were based on autopsy data, a source that is inherently biased. Other estimates (140/100,000 population) originated from an inappropriate analysis of data from the Cooperative Study. The most reliable information comes from a population-based study of Olmsted County, MN, but prevalence data specific to AVMs was not found in that study. CONCLUSION The estimates for AVM prevalence that are published in the medical literature are unfounded. Because of the rarity of the disease and the existence of asymptomatic patients, establishing a true prevalence rate is not feasible. Owing to variation in the detection rate of asymptomatic AVMs, the most reliable estimate for the occurrence of the disease is the detection rate for symptomatic lesions: 0.94 per 100,000 person-years (95% confidence interval, 0.57-1.30/100,000 person-years). This figure is derived from a single population-based study, but it is supported by a reanalysis of other data sources. The prevalence of detected, active (at risk) AVM disease is unknown, but it can be inferred from incidence data to be lower than 10.3 per 100,000 population.
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- M F Berman
- Department of Anesthesiology, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, New York, New York 10032, USA.
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Babikian VL, Feldmann E, Wechsler LR, Newell DW, Gomez CR, Bogdahn U, Caplan LR, Spencer MP, Tegeler C, Ringelstein EB, Alexandrov AV. Transcranial Doppler ultrasonography: year 2000 update. J Neuroimaging 2000; 10:101-15. [PMID: 10800264 DOI: 10.1111/jon2000102101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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In this update, the main clinical applications of transcranial Doppler ultrasonography are reassessed. A specific format for technology assessment, personal experience, and an extensive review of the literature form the basis of the evaluation. The document is approved by the American Society of Neuroimaging and the Neurosonology Research Group of the World Federation of Neurology.
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- V L Babikian
- Department of Neurology of Boston University, MA, USA
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Koller R. Anaesthetic management of patients undergoing surgery for cerebrovascular disease. Best Pract Res Clin Anaesthesiol 2000. [DOI: 10.1053/bean.2000.0066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Brain arteriovenous malformations are currently attracting increasing attention among clinicians as modern brain imaging techniques facilitate both diagnostic and follow-up evaluation. Their frequent presentation in young individuals, at times with flagrant clinical effects caused by cerebral hemorrhages or seizure disorders, keeps clinicians alert to any improvement in treatment strategies. Recent technical advances in surgical, endovascular, and radiation therapy add to the constantly accumulating data on clinical features, natural course, and treatment outcome in adult arteriovenous malformation patients. This review focuses on new concepts in arteriovenous malformation etiology, classification, treatment, and study approaches.
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- Stroke Center/Neurological Institute, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA
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Marshall RS, Hacein-Bey L, Young WL, Pile-Spellman J, Das S, Perera G, Mohr JP. Functional reorganization induced by endovascular embolization of a cerebral AVM. Hum Brain Mapp 1998; 4:168-73. [DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0193(1996)4:3<168::aid-hbm2>3.0.co;2-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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Mast H, Young WL, Koennecke HC, Sciacca RR, Osipov A, Pile-Spellman J, Hacein-Bey L, Duong H, Stein BM, Mohr JP. Risk of spontaneous haemorrhage after diagnosis of cerebral arteriovenous malformation. Lancet 1997; 350:1065-8. [PMID: 10213548 DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(97)05390-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 314] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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BACKGROUND A small proportion of strokes are caused by cerebral arteriovenous malformations (AVM). Treatment to prevent intracranial haemorrhage itself carries risks, and untreated AVM may in many cases have a good prognosis. We investigated the risk of subsequent symptomatic bleeding in the clinical course of AVM in patients with and without an initial haemorrhage. METHODS 281 unselected, consecutive, prospectively enrolled patients with cerebral AVM were grouped according to their initial clinical presentation--142 presented with and 139 without haemorrhage. The frequency of AVM haemorrhages during the subsequent clinical course (before the start of endovascular, surgical, or radiation treatment) in the two groups was compared by means of Kaplan-Meier life-tables, log-rank test, and multivariate proportional-hazards regression models. Haemorrhage was defined as a clinically symptomatic event with signs of acute bleeding on computed tomography or magnetic resonance brain imaging. FINDINGS During mean follow-up of 8.5 months for the haemorrhage group and 11.9 months for the non-haemorrhage group, haemorrhages occurred in 18 (13%) of the former patients and in three (2%) of the latter (p=0.0002). The annual risk of haemorrhage was 17.8% and 2.2%, respectively. In the multivariate regression model, the adjusted hazard ratio for haemorrhage at initial presentation was 13.9 (95% CI 2.6-73.8; p=0.002). Deep venous drainage (hazard ratio 4.1 [1.2-14.9], p=0.029) and male sex (9.2 [2.1-41.3], p=0.004) were also significantly associated with subsequent haemorrhage, but no significant association was found for age or AVM size. The annual rate of spontaneous haemorrhage was 32.6% for men and 10.4% for women in the haemorrhage group compared with 3.3% for men and 1.3% for women in the non-haemorrhage group. Among patients with haemorrhage at initial presentation, the risk of haemorrhage fell from 32.9% in year 1 to 11.3% in subsequent years (34.2% to 31.0% in men; 31.1% to 5.5% in women). INTERPRETATION In AVM, patients initially presenting with haemorrhage have a higher risk of subsequent bleeding than those presenting with other symptoms. The risk is higher in men than in women.
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- Department of Neurology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
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Young WL, Pile-Spellman J, Hacein-Bey L, Joshi S. INVASIVE NEURORADIOLOGIC PROCEDURES FOR CEREBROVASCULAR ABNORMALITIES: ANESTHETIC CONSIDERATIONS. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1997. [DOI: 10.1016/s0889-8537(05)70355-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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