Modern Brain Arteriovenous Malformation Models: A Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Research of William Hunter's hypothesized (then discovered) arteriovenous varix (now arteriovenous malformation [AVM]) has developed exponentially over the previous quarter-millennium. Virchow and Luschka's subsequent contributions (nearly 100 years later) by identifying an AVM of the brain and its congenital nature were 2 of the first significant developments made in the field. AVMs present as an erroneous connection (known as a fistula) between an artery and a vein that bypasses the capillary circulation. The arteries and arterioles contributing to the malformation are known as feeders which connect to the draining veins via a plexiform vascular network known as a nidus. Prior to the design of a synthetic anastomosis coupled with vessel ligation by Spetzler et al, anim

SUBMITTER: Bazil MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12778800 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature