What are the treatments?

There are 4 known treatments for an AVM. First, there’s the option of brain surgery, which is self explanatory. For this option they would go in and remove the entire tangle. The second option is radiation therapy, where they use a laser and kill off the AVM that way. A third option is something called embolization. Embolization is a minimally invasive procedure where they would go through my thigh and get into my arteries and follow the blood through my heart and to my brain where they would inject crazy glue right onto the feeder (the artery (or arteries) which are pumping the blood into the AVM.) the glue would hopefully plug the feeder and the AVM would basically die and disappear over the next 3 years with no repercussions. The fourth option is the conservative option, where we do nothing and just monitor the AVM.