A Cerebral Arteriovenous Malformation (AVM) is a rare tangle of blood vessels in the brain that carries a high risk of hemorrhaging.  Brain surgeons have found that "gluing" or blocking off the blood supply to these malformations before surgery cuts down on blood loss and patients do better....

Doctors often use grading scales that measure the most salient features of an illness to predict the outcome of a given treatment. These scales have been developed over the years and take in the experiences of many doctors and their patients with varying degrees of a problem. Things like how large...

Arteriovenous Malformations (AVM) are a rare but potentially deadly tangle of blood vessels that can form in the brain.  Their cause is not completely understood but for some time now, scientists have suspected that there is a link between these formations and a specific protein called Vascular...

At the Gamma Knife Center they like to be thorough. Before they perform radiosurgery on someone's brain they do exhaustive tests to locate the problem. One of the problems they treat is called Cerebral Arteriovenous Malformation, AVM for short. An AVM happens when small blood vessels in the brain form a tangled mass. This mass can cause brain cells to die, it can start bleeding, and it often causes headaches and sometimes seizures.

There are many rare problems that effect the blood vessels in the brain of newborns, infants and growing children. While very frightening and potentially lethal, many if not most of these conditions can be successfully treated. Unlike the majority of problems children can face that require a...

A vascular malformation is an abnormal collection or tangle of blood vessels. The malformations restrict or alter blood flow and are associated with the degeneration of neurons. In arteriovenous malformations (AVMs), arteries, which supply oxygen-rich blood to tissue, are directly interconnected ...

Dr. Feldstein has been the director of the Division of Pediatric Neurological Surgery since his arrival in 1994.  Under his directorship the division has grown to three full time pediatric neurological surgeons who cover all aspects of pediatric neurological surgery.  Among his interests and...