SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Ivanhoe Newswire) – An AVM is an abnormal tangle of blood vessels in the brain. They form in less than one percent of the adult population, but still, can be deadly. This is the ...

FRESNO, Calif. (KMPH/CNN/CNN Newsource/WKRC) - A seemingly healthy 12-year-old girl was rushed into emergency brain surgery after she had sudden head pain. "Out of nowhere she just sat up really quick ...

Contrary to the results of a seminal study in the field, a recent analysis presented today at the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery's (SNIS) 20th Annual Meeting indicates that surgical approaches ...

SAN DIEGO—Contrary to the results of a seminal study in the field, a recent analysis presented today at the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery’s (SNIS) 20th Annual Meeting indicates that surgical ...

A brain arteriovenous malformation (AVM) is an abnormal tangle of unusually formed blood vessels in the brain (Figure 1). Over time, these vessels can weaken and bleed into the brain itself. Brain ...

Wyatt Miller will undergo brain surgery in just over two weeks, and he's not looking forward to it. "I'm scared, really," said Wyatt, 12, as he picked up and held his family's pet cat. "I'm just going ...

Susan Mukami, who lives with a serious brain condition, is a woman in great emotional and physical pain after her dear mum spent money for her meds.

Envision a snarled ball of red and blue yarn, packed too tightly in the center to pull apart. The bleeding in Sen. Tim Johnson’s brain resulted from a condition not too different — where arteries and ...

Blood vessels in this microscope image of an AVM (cyan and blue) contain patches of immune cells (green) that destabilize the vasculature, potentially leading to stroke. Image by Jayden Ross and Ethan ...

While getting prepared for surgeries related to his Arlington Monster Energy Supercross crash, an MRI revealed a brain arteriovenous malformation (AVM) for Austin Forkner. He underwent brain surgery ...

SAN ANTONIO — A few months ago, Charles Hernandez was starting his day, but his head was killing him. "I woke up with a severe headache on the right side," he recalled. Hernandez started the drive to ...