Can ‘amputation’ be justified for arteriovenous-shunting malformations?

Can claims for 'wrongful life' be justified?

The authors reject Joseph Fletcher's arguments that the choice to procreate is a privilege and that parents may be responsible in certain circumstances for producing genetically defective children. They argue instead that procreation is a conditional right, but nonetheless conclude that parents may be held responsible for the "wrongful life" of genetically damaged offspring based on the legal ...

Linac stereotactic radiosurgery for the treatment of small arteriovenous malformations: lower doses can be equally effective.

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to examine the efficacy and toxicity of treating small arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) (≤3 cm in diameter) with a median marginal applied dose of 14 Gy. METHODS Two hundred and thirteen patients diagnosed with AVMs were treated between January 1991 and December 2005. Seventy-three percent of the patients had hemorrhaged prior to treatment, 13% had ha...

Can Knowledge Be Justified True Belief?

Knowledge was traditionally held to be justified true belief. This paper examines the implications of maintaining this view if justication is interpreted algorithmically. It is argued that if we move sufficiently far from the small worlds to which Bayesian decision theory properly applies, we can steer between the rock of fallibilism and the whirlpool of skepticism only by explicitly building i...

Active euthanasia: can it be justified?

Arteriovenous malformations.

hyperemia: a theory for the hemodynamic complications following resection of intracerebral arteriovenous malformations. criterial care aspects regarding the treatment of patients with arteriovenous malformations in interventional neuroradiology. RN: Hypertension does not cause spontaneous hemorrhage of intracranial arteriovenous malformations.