Arteriovenous Malformation - Diagnosis

Diagnosis

AVMs can occur in various parts of the body:

• brain,
• spleen
• lung
• kidney
• spinal cord
• liver
• intercostal space
• iris
• spermatic cord

AVMs may occur in isolation or as a part of another disease (for example, Von Hippel-Lindau disease or hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia).

AVMs have been shown to be associated with Aortic Stenosis.

Bleeding from an AVM can be relatively mild or devastating. It can cause severe and less often fatal strokes. If a cerebral AVM is detected before a stroke occurs, usually the arteries feeding blood into the nidus can be closed off to avert the danger. However, interventional therapy may also be relatively risky