Interventions for treating brain arteriovenous malformations in adults.

ABSTRACT:

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 radiosurgery, endovascular embolization, and staged combinations of these interventions. This is an update of a Cochrane Review first published in 2006, and last updated in 2009.

Objectives

To determine the effectiveness and safety of the different interventions, alone or in combination, for treating brain AVMs in adults compared against either each other, or c

SUBMITTER: Zuurbier SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6735449 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature