The National Kidney Foundation's Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative guidelines encourage more-frequent use of primary arteriovenous ... to predict whether a fistula will mature ...

Neurosurgery is often the best option for small to medium size AVMs in favorable areas of the brain because it allows for the immediate and complete cure of the AVM, with a good safety profile. The ...

Spinal Arteriovenous Malformations (Type II ... Figure 3a: Intra-operative view of a Type 1 spinal dural fistula surgery. The enlarged vein (blue arrow) laying on the spinal nerves (white arrow) is ...

Farhat operated on a precariously positioned nodule behind Charlotte's ear. The arteriovenous fistula, or abnormal connection ...

The lump was an arteriovenous fistula, an abnormal connection that ... preventing Charlotte from enduring major surgery. “We thought that we had a chance of doing it without a very large open ...