Spinal Dural Arteriovenous Fistulas (Type I) - These malformations represent 70 percent of spinal vascular malformations and are the result of an abnormal connection forming between an artery and a ...

New technique preserves major nerves, blood vessels, and other critical structures in a hard-to-access area. In a ...

Posterior spinal artery aneurysms -- a blood-filled swelling of the spinal cord artery, caused by a weakening and distension of the vessel wall -- are rare, with only 12 cases reported to date.

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden and the University of Auckland in New Zealand have developed a ...

Posterior spinal artery aneurysms - a blood-filled swelling of the spinal cord artery, caused by a weakening and distension of the vessel wall - are rare, with only 12 cases reported to date.

What Mehta found was “a small abnormal connection between the artery and the vein that goes in the spinal cord,” he said. Blood from the artery was entering the vein at higher pressure than ...

Experts divide vascular diseases of the brain and spinal cord (central nervous system) into two types: ischemic and hemorrhagic conditions. Ischemic diseases occur when there’s not enough blood ...