In March 2022, Chloe Hermansen, then 23, began to feel her pulse in her right eye. She’d always had migraines, dating back to when she was first diagnosed with an unusual malformation of blood vessels ...

Venous abnormalities, comprising tissues primarily composed of abnormally shaped veins, can pose significant challenges for treatment, particularly when situated in sensitive areas such as the eyes, ...

Soon after Nagalem Alafa was born, a mass began growing on her face. The now 5-year-old had a vascular malformation, where blood vessels snarl like overgrown vines. It became so large that doctors ...

Developmental venous anomalies (DVAs) represent the most common cerebral vascular malformation, generally considered benign congenital variants of venous drainage. Nevertheless, there is increasing ...

Recent advances in understanding venous malformation disease pathogenesis highlight the PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway as a key driver of disease proliferation, spurring real-world off-label use of systemic ...

The options for treating vascular malformations in infants and children are limited by the size of the child and the location of the lesion. Surgery is associated with high rates of recurrence, and ...

Cavernous malformations, also known as "cavernous angiomas," "cavernous hemangiomas" or just "cavernomas" are clusters of tightly packed abnormal blood vessels surrounded by normal brain tissue.