3,557 results match your criteria: "Brain Imaging in Venous Vascular Malformations"
Neuroradiology
June 2024
Neuroradiology Unit, IRCCS Istituto Giannina Gaslini, Via Gerolamo Gaslini 5, 16147, Genoa, Italy.
Purpose: To validate a semiautomated method for segmenting vein of Galen aneurysmal malformations (VGAM) and to assess the relationship between VGAM volume and other angioarchitectural features, cardiological findings, and outcomes.
Methods: In this retrospective study, we selected all subjects with VGAM admitted to the Gaslini Children's Hospital between 2009 and 2022. Clinical data were retrieved from electronic charts.
Neuroradiology
July 2024
Imaging Sciences and Interventional Radiology, Sree Chitra Thirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, 695011, India.
Purpose: Endovascular treatment of direct carotid cavernous fistula (DCCF) requires invasive diagnostic cerebral angiography for diagnosis and planning; however, a less invasive modality like magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) can be useful, especially in high-risk cases. This single-centre study evaluated a newer MR angiography (MRA) sequence, silent MRA and the traditional time of flight (TOF) MRA for pre-procedural treatment planning of DCCF.
Methods: All consecutive DCCF patients who underwent TOF, silent MRA and diagnostic cerebral angiography were included in the study.
BMJ Case Rep
April 2024
Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA.
SummaryHereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) has an estimated prevalence of 1 in 5000-8000 individuals globally with pulmonary arteriovenous malformations (PAVMs) affecting approximately 15%-50% of HHT patients. Ischaemic stroke is a known complication of PAVMs that affects ≤30% of patients with PAVMs. Studies have shown that patients with PAVMs have ischaemic stroke a decade earlier than routine stroke.
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October 2024
Department of Neurosurgery, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, China.
Objective: Intracranial intracranial dural arteriovenous fistulas (DAVFs) are mainly treated with an endovascular approach and various embolic agents. The aim of this study was to investigate the efficacy and safety of Onyx embolization in the treatment of DAVFs and characterize the factors as sociated with complete obliteration.
Methods: This retrospective study was based on 62 patients with DAVFs who underwent endovascular treatment with Onyx alone or in combination with coils at our institution.
World Neurosurg
June 2024
Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; Department of Neurosurgery, Hospital Beneficência Portuguesa de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. Electronic address:
Cavernous malformations (CMs) are rare and often oligosymptomatic vascular lesions. The main symptoms include seizure and focal neurologic deficits. Depending on the symptomatology, location, size, and risk factors for bleeding, like the presence of a developmental venous anomaly, CMs can be highly morbid.
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August 2024
From the Division of Neuroradiology, Joint Department of Medical Imaging and University Medical Imaging Toronto (T.P.K., A.L., T.K.), Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Background And Purpose: Parasagittal and superior sagittal sinus (SSS) dural arteriovenous fistulas (DAVFs) are often inappropriately classified. We explore the clinical presentations, imaging characteristics, and endovascular treatment strategies of these 2 DAVF subtypes.
Materials And Methods: Clinical and imaging data of 19 patients with SSS or parasagittal sinus DAVFs who underwent endovascular treatment in our institution between 2017 and 2022 were retrospectively analyzed.
Neurosurg Focus
March 2024
2Department of Neuroradiology, Pitié-Salpêtrière University Hospital, Sorbonne Université, Paris.
Objective: The pathogenesis of intracranial dural arteriovenous fistulas (icDAVFs) is controversial. Cerebral vein thrombosis (CVT) and venous hypertension are recognized predisposing factors. This study aimed to evaluate the incidence of association between icDAVF and CVT and describe baseline aggressiveness and clinical outcomes for icDAVFs associated with CVT.
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February 2024
Neuroradiology, AIIMS, New Delhi, India
The coexistence of an arteriovenous fistula (AVF) and neuronal migration abnormalities is a rare phenomenon. The underlying pathophysiology responsible for these anomalies remains elusive. Neuronal architectural irregularities arise from complex neuronal formation, migration and organisation dysfunctions.
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May 2024
Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, Sardjito General Hospital, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Background And Objective: Brain arteriovenous malformations (bAVMs) carry a risk of hemorrhage. We aim to identify factors associated with subsequent hemorrhages.
Methods: Systematic searches were conducted across the ScienceDirect, Medline, and Cochrane databases.
Curr Med Imaging
February 2024
Department of Radiology, Second People Hospital of Hunan, Changsha, Hunan Province, China.
Background: Dural sinus malformation (DSM) is a rather rare congenital condition that can be encountered in the fetus and infants. The cause and etiology of DSM remain unclear. Obstetric ultrasound plays a key role in screening fetal brain malformations, and MRI is frequently used as a complementary method to confirm the diagnosis and provide more details.
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February 2024
Radiodiagnosis, All India Institute of Medical Sciences-Patna, Patna, India.
We describe a rare case of dural arteriovenous fistula (dAVF) of the posterior condylar canal in a man in his 30s who presented with recent onset headache and neck pain and subsequently acute intracranial haemorrhage. Radiological workup showed a medulla bridging vein draining dAVF of the right posterior condylar canal supplied by a meningeal branch of the right occipital artery. A dilated venous sac was seen compressing over cerebellar tonsil on the right side.
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March 2024
Klinik für Diagnostische und Interventionelle Neuroradiologie, Universitätsklinikum des Saarlandes, Kirrberger Str., Gebäude 90.4, 66421, Homburg, Deutschland.
Background: Carotid cavernous fistulas (CCFs) are rare but clinically significant vascular anomalies characterized by abnormal connections between the cavernous sinus and arteries. This overview presents a comprehensive analysis of anatomy, classification, clinical presentation, diagnosis, imaging, and therapy of CCFs. The cavernous sinus, a central venous structure in the brain, is of critical importance for understanding CCFs due to its proximity to key structures such as the internal carotid artery and cranial nerves.
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May 2024
Department of Neurosurgery and Neurooncology, Charles University, First Faculty of Medicine, Military University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic.
World Neurosurg
May 2024
Department of Neurosurgery, Santa Casa BH, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Microscopes with fluorescence modality for videoangiography (VAG) using indocyanine green or sodium fluorescein (FL) have been used in cerebrovascular surgeries as tools for brain blood flow assessment in vascular diseases, especially in brain aneurysms, extracranial-intracranial bypass, and arteriovenous malformations (AVMs). Indocyanine green-VAG is a well-documented tool frequently employed as an adjunct to microsurgery for AVM treatment. Nevertheless, it's worth noting that the use of FL-VAG has been significantly underrepresented in medical literature, with only a few studies addressing its application in this context.
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April 2024
Hospital Lomas International, San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, México.
Background: Intracranial dural arteriovenous fistulas (IDAVFs) are abnormal vascular connections between dural arteries and various venous structures within the brain. IDAVFs, rarely present with parkinsonism and dementia concurrently, making this a unique and underexplored clinical scenario. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first systematic review to comprehensively analyze cases of IDAVFs manifesting as both parkinsonism and dementia.
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May 2024
Functional Neurosurgery Research Center, Shohada Tajrish Comprehensive Neurosurgical Center of Excellence, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Objective: Arteriovenous malformation is a disease of the vascular system that occurs mainly in the cerebral arteries and spine. Numerical simulation as a powerful method is used to investigate the Cerebral Arteriovenous Malformation hemodynamic after occlusion of the abnormality step by step by embolization.
Methods: The computed tomography (CT) Angiographic imaging data of 2 patients are used and a geometric model is extracted by the Mimics software.
World Neurosurg
April 2024
Department of Neurological Surgery, St. John's Neuroscience Institute, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA. Electronic address:
With improvements in anesthesia, monitoring, and peroperative care, the surgical removal of intrinsic brainstem pathology has become a possibility. Although surgical removal of deep-seated lesions continues to have significant morbidity, at least temporarily, associated with it, removal of exophytic lesions can be accomplished with little disability for the patient. The key to a good outcome, when removing cerebral cavernous malformation, is preservation of adjacent neurovascular bundles, use of sharp dissection over blunt pulling, judicious use of cautery in and around the brainstem, and preservation of the developmental venous anomaly, when present.
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January 2024
Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan.
A woman in her 20s, who was pregnant, underwent a routine antenatal ultrasound revealing organised intraventricular haemorrhage and a vascular area in the left thalamic region. Fetal MRI raised suspicion of arteriovenous malformation (AVM). The baby was delivered at 36 weeks via C-section, and initial brain MRI suggested a possible neoplastic lesion.
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February 2024
Department of Neurosurgery, Al-Ahli Hospital, Hebron, Palestine.
Introduction And Importance: Multiple dural arteriovenous fistulas (AVFs) are rare intracranial vascular malformations with fatal consequences. Patients usually manifest with variable clinical presentations, which depend on the fistula's size, location, and the development of complication. Digital subtraction angiography continues to be the gold standard neuroimaging modality for diagnosis.
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December 2023
Department of Neuroradiology, Neurocenter of Southern Switzerland - EOC, Lugano, Switzerland
Dural arteriovenous fistulas (DAVFs) are intracranial vascular abnormalities in which one or more meningeal arteries shunt into a venous structure, either a cortical vein or a venous sinus, causing cerebral venous hypertension and risk of haemorrhage. Imaging diagnosis and characterisation are of paramount importance to grade the haemorrhagic risk and direct management. Non-invasive vascular neuroimaging might pose a diagnostic suspicion, but invasive catheter digital subtraction angiography (DSA) is usually required.
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April 2024
Department of Neurosurgery, Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China. Electronic address:
Isolated sinus dural arteriovenous fistulas (DAVFs) involve a dural sinus with occlusion on both sides of the diseased sinus segment. Because of venous drainage refluxing from the isolated sinus into the cortical veins, all isolated sinus DAVFs are Borden type III or Cognard type Ⅲ/Ⅳ. Venous drainage typically involves temporo-occipital cortical veins or the superior petrosal sinus and tributaries of the petrosal vein.
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December 2024
Department of Neurosurgery, The First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China.
Cerebellar pial arteriovenous fistula (PAVF) in adults presenting with congestive edema of the brainstem and cervical cord has rarely been reported. Here, we report such a case. A 59-year-old man presented with progressive weakness and numbness of the limbs and hiccups for 6 months.
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November 2023
Specialty Chair, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York.
Tinnitus is abnormal perception of sound and has many subtypes. Clinical evaluation, audiometry, and otoscopy should be performed before ordering any imaging, as the choice of imaging will depend on various factors. Type of tinnitus (pulsatile or nonpulsatile) and otoscopy findings of a vascular retrotympanic lesion are key determinants to guide the choice of imaging studies.
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November 2023
Department of Neurology, Fudan University Affiliated Huashan Hospital, No. 12 Wulumuqi Road, Shanghai, 200040, China.