Book contents
- Stories of Stroke
- Stories of Stroke
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Why This Book Needed to Be Written
- Preface
- Part I Early Recognition
- Part II Basic Knowledge, Sixteenth to Early Twentieth Centuries
- Part III Modern Era, Mid-Twentieth Century to the Present
- Types of Stroke
- Chapter Fifteen Carotid Artery Disease
- Chapter Sixteen Lacunes
- Chapter Seventeen Vertebrobasilar Disease
- Chapter Eighteen Aneurysms and Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
- Chapter Nineteen Intracerebral Hemorrhage
- Chapter Twenty Vascular Malformations
- Chapter Twenty One Cerebral Venous Thrombosis
- Chapter Twenty Two Arterial Dissections, Fibromuscular Dysplasia, Moyamoya Disease, and Reversible Cerebral Vasoconstriction Syndrome
- Chapter Twenty Three Blood Disorders
- Chapter Twenty Four Stroke Genetics
- Chapter Twenty Five Eye Vascular Disease
- Chapter Twenty Six Spinal Cord Vascular Disease
- Some Key Physicians
- Imaging
- Care
- Treatment
- Part IV Stroke Literature, Organizations, and Patients
- Index
- References
Chapter Twenty - Vascular Malformations
from Types of Stroke
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 December 2022
- Stories of Stroke
- Stories of Stroke
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Why This Book Needed to Be Written
- Preface
- Part I Early Recognition
- Part II Basic Knowledge, Sixteenth to Early Twentieth Centuries
- Part III Modern Era, Mid-Twentieth Century to the Present
- Types of Stroke
- Chapter Fifteen Carotid Artery Disease
- Chapter Sixteen Lacunes
- Chapter Seventeen Vertebrobasilar Disease
- Chapter Eighteen Aneurysms and Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
- Chapter Nineteen Intracerebral Hemorrhage
- Chapter Twenty Vascular Malformations
- Chapter Twenty One Cerebral Venous Thrombosis
- Chapter Twenty Two Arterial Dissections, Fibromuscular Dysplasia, Moyamoya Disease, and Reversible Cerebral Vasoconstriction Syndrome
- Chapter Twenty Three Blood Disorders
- Chapter Twenty Four Stroke Genetics
- Chapter Twenty Five Eye Vascular Disease
- Chapter Twenty Six Spinal Cord Vascular Disease
- Some Key Physicians
- Imaging
- Care
- Treatment
- Part IV Stroke Literature, Organizations, and Patients
- Index
- References
Summary
Before the advent of modern brain and vascular imaging, recognition of vascular malformations was only at necropsy or surgery. William Hunter, the brother of the surgeon John Hunter, is often credited for the first description of an arteriovenous communication [1]. In 1757 Hunter reported two patients who had acquired systemic arteriovenous fistulas as a result of overexuberant phlebotomies. He heard a loud hissing murmur and a strong tremulous thrill in the arm at the location of the vascular communication. The brachial artery was much enlarged and large tortuous venous sacs visibly pulsated. Hunter was able to reduce the size of the veins and eliminate the murmur and thrill by pressing on a local spot that he recognized to be the point of the arteriovenous communication. He suggested the word “anastamosis” for this union [1].
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- Stories of StrokeKey Individuals and the Evolution of Ideas, pp. 167 - 173Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022