Deans' stroke musings: Conservative Management vs Intervention for Unruptured Brain Arteriovenous Malformations

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Saturday, September 13, 2014

Conservative Management vs Intervention for Unruptured Brain Arteriovenous Malformations

For your next discussion with your neurologist.
http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1902220
Behind a paywall, but you can see the first page.

To the Editor Management of brain arteriovenous malformations (bAVMs) has been debated in the recent medical literature. If left untreated, bAVMs confer a risk of neurological morbidity and mortality; however, treatment is associated with risks but offers the potential for lifetime eradication.

Dr Al-Shahi Salman and colleagues¹ prospectively followed up 204 patients with unruptured bAVMs over 12 years. Morbidity and mortality rates among patients managed conservatively vs those who underwent interventions (surgical resection, endovascular treatment, radiosurgery, or multimodal intervention) were compared. Over a 4-year period, the authors reported 36 events leading to sustained disability or death in the conservative management group vs 39 in the intervention group. The number of bAVM-associated symptomatic strokes or deaths in patients managed conservatively vs with an intervention was 14 vs 38, respectively.