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...

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 most parts of the body, blood flows from small arteries to capillaries, then into veins of increasing size and ba...