BACKGROUND The hemodynamic evaluation of cerebral arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) using DSA has not been validated against true flow measurements. OBJECTIVE To validate AVM hemodynamics assessed by DSA using quantitative magnetic resonance angiography (QMRA). MATERIALS AND METHODS Patients seen at our institution between 2007 and 2016 with a supratentorial AVM and DSA and QMRA obtained b...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The goal of this study was to analyze the association of hemorrhagic presentation with infratentorial brain arteriovenous malformations (AVMs). METHODS The 623 consecutive, prospectively enrolled patients from the Columbia AVM Databank were analyzed in a cross-sectional study. Clinical presentation (diagnostic event) was categorized as intracranial hemorrhage or nonhemo...

The coexistence of moyamoya disease (MMD) with an arteriovenous malformation (AVM) is exceedingly rare. We report two cases of AVM associated with MMD. The first case was an incidental AVM diagnosed simultaneously with MMD. This AVM was managed expectantly after encephalo-duro-arterio-synangiosis (EDAS) as the main feeders stemmed from the internal carotid artery, which we believed would be obl...

Stereotactic radiosurgery for intracranial arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) has been performed since the 1970s. When an AVM is treated with radiosurgery, radiation injury to the vascular endothelium induces the proliferation of smooth muscle cells and the elaboration of extracellular collagen, which leads to progressive stenosis and obliteration of the AVM nidus. Obliteration after AVM radios...

abstract background: the gamma knife radiosurgery (gkr) is an established management option for cerebral ar-teriovenous malformations (avms). therapeutic benefits of radiosurgery for arteriovenous malformations are complete obliteration of nidus with minimal neurological deficit. methods: radiosurgery was performed between february 2003 and april 2010 at kamraniye day clinic, teh-ran, iran, usi...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The morbidity from spontaneous hemorrhage of untreated brain arteriovenous malformations (AVM) is not well described. METHODS The 241 consecutive AVM patients (mean age 37+/-16 years, 52% women) from the prospective Columbia AVM Databank initially presenting with hemorrhage were evaluated using the Rankin Scale (RS) and the National Institute of Health Stroke Scale (NIH...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The goal of this work was to determine the effect of age at initial presentation on clinical and morphological characteristics in patients with brain arteriovenous malformation (AVM). METHODS The 542 consecutive patients from the prospective Columbia AVM database (mean+/-SD age, 34+/-15 years) were analyzed. Univariate statistical models were used to test the effect of ...