AVMs can cause bleeding into the gastrointestinal tract, resulting in hematemesis (vomiting blood) or melena (black or tarry stools containing blood).
Arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) are blood vessel defects that occur before birth when the fetus is growing in the uterus (prenatal development). The blood vessels appear as a tangled mass of arteries and veins.
They are usually benign. Your eye doctor will monitor them.
AVMs can occur anywhere in the body and have been found in the arms, hands, legs, feet, lungs, heart, liver, and kidneys. However, 50% of these malformations are located in the brain, brainstem, and spinal cord.
Barbiturate comas are used to protect the brain during major brain surgery, such as the removal of arteriovenous malformations or aneurysms
Telangiectasias-- Very small arteriovenous malformations, or connections between the arteries and veins. The result is small red spots on the skin known as "spider veins."
Cardiovascular malformations are well-recognized congenital anomalies in Turner syndrome. Dilation and dissection of the aorta are reported in approximately half of women with Turner syndrome
The radiation takes months to exert its complete effect, and success can only be measured over the course of the following two years. A year after the procedure, 50-75% of treated AVMs are completely blocked.
Arteriovenous malformation is not one of the causes of schizophrenia. Arteriovenous malformation affects the heart and blood vessels, not the brain.
A very rare syndrome characterised mainly by heart malformations,kidney problems and cleft lip or palate.
Emile Holman has written: 'Abnormal arteriovenous communications' -- subject(s): Arteriovenous Fistula
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Although a few children experience encopresis because of malformations of the lower bowel and anus or irritable bowel disease, most have no physical problems to explain this disorder