Brain Arteriovenous Malformation Pages
Daniel Walsh frcs | Consultant Neurosurgeon
Browse the pages listed below to learn about how brain AVM develop, cause symptoms and their treatment. Content written by Dr Daniel Walsh.
What is a Brain AVM?
What is an AVM? How do they develop? Are they inherited? What problems can they cause?
Bleeding Brain AVM
Bleeding from a brain AVM, or an aneurysm associated with it, is usually a neurosurgical emergency.
Unruptured AVM
Brain AVM may never bleed but can be associated with other neurological symptoms such as seizures.
Microsurgical Treatment
The removal of a brain AVM offers a highly-effective means to prevent haemorrhage in appropriately selected cases.
Radiosurgery
Smaller AVMs may, be reliably obliterated over time by precisely focussed beams of radiation.
Embolisation
Materials deposited via a catheter seek to obstruct flow through an AVM or occlude associated aneurysms.
