PURPOSE Follow-up of vascular changes in a patient with congenital retinocephalofacial vascular malformation syndrome. METHODS MRI and cerebral angiography. RESULTS In a 36-year-old man, magnetic resonance imaging of the skull and cerebral angiography revealed left intracranial arteriovenous malformations. Follow-up observation of 27 years revealed no essential change of retinal and cerebra...

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the possibility of abnormal avf was considered and it was confirmed on contrast-enhanced computed tomography (ct), inferring that this modality is not only fast and non-invasive, but also accurate in detecting vascular abnormalities. herein, we report a 42-year-old woman with congenital avf between the external carotid artery and external jugular vein, presenting with palpitation and dyspnea. t...

BACKGROUND Catheter use has been associated with an increased mortality risk in haemodialysis patients. However, differences in the all-cause and cause-specific mortality risk between catheter use and arteriovenous access use in young and elderly haemodialysis patients have not yet been investigated. METHODS In this prospective cohort study of 1109 incident haemodialysis patients from 38 cent...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to determine the utility of postcontrast susceptibility-weighted MRI (PCSWI) in the evaluation of vascular malformations of the brain (BVM). METHODS We retrospectively evaluated PCSWI and digital subtraction angiography data from 16 consecutive patients with known or suspected BVM, which had been entered into a prospectively maintained data...

Four patients with spontaneous arteriovenous malformations of cervical vessels have been presented. The embryology of these vessels has been discussed in order to suggest an explanation for the apparent difference in the incidence of arteriovenous malformations involving the internal carotid artery and those involving either the vertebral or the external carotid arteries. A fifth case (S.T.) is...

INTRODUCTION Auricular Arteriovenous Malformation of the external ear is a rarely encountered disease; in particular, arteriovenous malformation arising from the auricle, with spontaneous bleeding, has seldom been reported. OBJECTIVE In the current study, we report an unusual case of late-onset auricular arteriovenous malformation originating from the posterior auricular artery that was confi...

BACKGROUND Dural sinus malformation (DSM) is a term used to describe congenital vascular malformations characterized by massive dilation of one or more dural sinuses: these dilatations are typically associated with arteriovenous shunts. Such malformations can present antenatally but their early natural history and anatomy is poorly defined. METHODS We reviewed five years of autopsy experience...

The roles of the Notch pathway proteins in normal adult vascular physiology and the pathogenesis of brain arteriovenous malformations are not well-understood. Notch 1 and 4 have been detected in human and mutant mice vascular malformations respectively. Although mutations in the human Notch 3 gene caused a genetic form of vascular stroke and dementia, its role in arteriovenous malformations dev...

Dural arteriovenous fistulas are acquired lesions that usually involve the dura around the cavernous sinus. The transverse, sigmoid, and superior sagittal sinuses may be affected occasionally. With the exception of bilateral cavernous sinus dural arteriovenous fistulas, the simultaneous occurrence of dural arteriovenous fistulas at two locations is rare. Among 105 patients evaluated for dural a...