Intracranial pial arteriovenous fistula (PAVF)

Evidence-based neurology checklist on intracranial pial arteriovenous fistula (pavf): Pathology There are one or more arteries feeding into a single vein There is no plexiform nidus: unlike in classical AVMs Clinical features Associated disorders Complications Investigations Treatment

Pathology

  • There are one or more arteries feeding into a single vein
  • There is no plexiform nidus: unlike in classical AVMs

Clinical features

Associated disorders

Complications

Investigations

Treatment

References

  1. Smajda S, Rodesch G. Giant pediatric intracranial pial macrofistula. Neurology 2020; 95:270-271.
  2. Pedicelli A, Iacobucci M, Frassanito P, et al. Prenatal diagnosis and multimodal neonatal treatment of a rare pial arteriovenous fistula: case report and review of the literature. World Neurosurg 2017; 104:1050.e13-1050.e18. 
  3. Goel A, Jain S, Shah A, Rai S, Gore S, Dharurkar P. Pial arteriovenous fistula: a brief review and report of 14 surgically treated cases. World Neurosurg 2018; 110:e873-e881.
  4. Oh HJ, Yoon SM, Kim SH, Shim JJ. A case of pial arteriovenous fistula with giant venous aneurysm and multiple varices treated with coil embolization. J Korean Neurosurg Soc 2011; 50:248-251.
  5. Hoh BL, Putman CM, Budzik RF, Ogilvy CS. Surgical and endovascular flow disconnection of intracranial pial single-channel arteriovenous fistulae. Neurosurgery 2001; 49:1351-1363.
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