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ArticleNeurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology2020

Isolated hemorrhagic arterialized DVAs: revisiting symptomatic DVAs.

Manzoor Ahmed, Mohamed-Karji AlMarzooqi, Basel Mahmoud Younes, Riyadh Nasser Alokaili, Farooq Azam

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Article in Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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5 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Manzoor AhmedDepartment of Radiology, Sheikh Khalifa Medical City, Abu Dhabi, UAE. manahmed@seha.ae.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5811-4375
Mohamed-Karji AlMarzooqiDepartment of Radiology, Sheikh Khalifa Medical City, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Basel Mahmoud YounesDepartment of Neurosurgery, Sheikh Khalifa Medical City, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Riyadh Nasser AlokailiDepartment of Radiology, King Faisal Hospital & Research Center, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Farooq AzamDepartment of Neurosurgery, Lady Reading Hospital, Peshawar, Pakistan.
Shaikh Khalifa Medical City · AEKing Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre · SALady Reading Hospital · PK

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We aim to present here a small case series of symptomatic isolated hemorrhagic arterialized developmental venous anomalies (sDVAs) with a larger goal of revisiting the classification based on patho-mechanisms plus emphasizing angiographic features coupled with CT and MRI. Typically, DVA is an incidental and silent abnormality on neuroimaging. Understanding its morphology in terms of arterialization and relationship with other entities is crucial for management. One adult and two pediatric cases presented with acute or sub-acute hemorrhage in the cerebellum or thalamus. Morphologic characterization on cross-sectional imaging and catheter angiography confirmed the integrated diagnosis of "symptomatic isolated hemorrhagic arterialized DVAs with deeper or superficial venous drainage". Conservative management was adopted in all cases. We emphasize the following classification and approach for symptomatic DVAs: (1) congestive isolated arterialized sDVAs, (2) congestive isolated resistive sDVAs, (3) coexisting sDVAs (with AVM or cavernous malformation), (4) compressive sDVAs (compressive effects), and (5) idiopathic DVAs. Like our three cases, ganglionic and infratentorial DVAs have higher propensity of hemorrhage, compressive effects, and usually harbor deeper venous drainage. Typical "caput medusae" as dominant collector vein on cross-sectional imaging is crucial to complement and even confirm the diagnosis of DVA before catheter angiography in sDVAs. Capillary stain or early opacification of DVAs is a marker of arteriovenous shunting in arterialized sDVAs. Recognition of this entity is crucial as treatment is usually conservative.

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Cerebral VeinsMagnetic Resonance ImagingAdultCerebellumChildHemorrhageHumansNeurosurgical ProceduresArterializedArteriovenous shuntingDVA

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