The National Kidney Foundation's Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative guidelines encourage more-frequent use of primary arteriovenous fistulae (AVF) in hemodialysis patients, because this ...

A pulmonary arteriovenous malformation is an abnormal connection between an artery and a vein within the lungs that allows deoxygenated venous blood to pass directly into the system circulation.

After nearly collapsing onstage last week, country star Drake White revealed in PEOPLE’s latest issue that he was diagnosed with an arteriovenous malformation (AVM) in January and is currently ...

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 ...

While there are different options, one stands out as the safest and most effective, an Arteriovenous (AV) fistula. But what makes this surgical connection between an artery and a vein the gold ...

Spinal vascular malformations, also known as spinal arteriovenous malformations (AVMs), are the result of an abnormal connection between arteries and veins that occurs within the spinal canal or ...