Also called a glomus AVM, type II malformations consist of an abnormal connection between the arteries and veins occurring within the spinal cord itself. The connection takes place in a focused ...

They commonly develop in the brain or spinal cord. A rupture of an AVM in these parts of your body can cause life threatening bleeding or other serious complications like seizures or a stroke.

A careful search for segmentally related cutaneous hemangiomas in a series of 28 patients with spinal-cord arteriovenous malformations revealed six with such an association, a much higher ...

An arteriovenous malformation (AVM) is a tangle of blood vessels. It can develop anywhere in the body, but it presents the most risk when it occurs in the brain or spinal cord. An AVM can result ...

Matt received his diagnosis of a spinal AVM, a rare condition where a tangle of blood vessels form on, in or near the spinal cord, according to the NHS. “I didn’t know what an AVM was and I ...

Matt received his diagnosis of a spinal AVM, a rare condition where a tangle of blood vessels form on, in or near the spinal cord, according to the NHS. "I didn't know what an AVM was and I was ...

Congenital spinal cord malformations affect around one in 2,000 newborns in Europe each year. Although these malformations have been studied for decades, they cannot be fully explained through ...