Outcome After Conservative Management or Intervention for Unruptured Brain Arteriovenous Malformations

Rustam Al-Shahi Salman, PhD, Philip M White, FRCR, Carl E Counsell, MD, Johann du Plessis, FRCR, Janneke van Beijnum, MD, Colin B Josephson, MD, Tim Wilkinson, MRCP, Catherine J Wedderburn, MBChB, Zoe Chandy, MB, ChB, Jerome St George, FRCS, SN, Robin J Sellar, FRCR, Charles P Warlow, FRCP. JAMA. Originally published April 23/30, 2014.

“Among patients aged 16 years or older diagnosed as having unruptured bAVM, use of conservative management compared with intervention was associated with better clinical outcomes for up to 12 years.”