Talk:Arteriovenous malformation

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WOw man some of that stuff is dangerousZomborg 20:02, 17 July 2006 (UTC)


I think this article could have some example images of people with AVM. Like that girl on TV with the swollen nose. I'm pretty sure she suffered AVM too.

The current article mentions an arteriorgram. Wikipedia has an redirect entry for arteriogram, but not for arteriorgram (note slight difference in spelling). There are 300x as many google hits for the former vs. the latter. I was going to "correct" the spelling, and link the term in the article, but am not familiar with the terminology, and didn't want to risk introducing incorrect information. Any experts here? 72.94.96.128 17:34, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

I'm not an expert, but the use of arteriography shows that arteriogram is clearly the term that was meant to be used here. I've gone ahead and made the change. --68.13.147.241 19:28, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
Arteriogram is the usage that was used around me when I had the actual test. Alcourt 05:43, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

The phrasing on it not being hereditary is obtuse, it took me several readings to get the intended meaning.

Other things that might be worth mentioning:

Most AVMs are found only in autopsy of persons who died of unrelated causes. (Sorry, don't recall the sources I found on this). NPR was citing figures of approximately 300k people in the US estimated to have this condition. I saw somewhere it claimed (and this fits my understanding as well) that most AVMs are found in persons aged around 9-35. No, I don't understand why.

Larger AVMs often have a "slow leak" hemmoraging which can create symptoms. Every survivor story I've read of sudden massive hemmorage has involved a very small AVM or blood vessel.

Normal treatment involves either surgical blockage/removal of the impacted blood vessels (often with aneurysm clips) or radiation surgery (I want to say gamma knife) to shrink the impacted blood vessels. Another technique using a "glue" to block off the blood vessels is also used at times.

Since I don't have references handy, I'm not editing the main article yet.

Alcourt 05:43, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

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