Arteriovenous malformation
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Tanner Marshall, MS
Arterio refers to the arteries, which are the the blood vessels that take blood away from the heart. Venous refers to the veins, which carry blood toward the heart. Mal means “badly,” so an arteriovenous malformation, or AVM, is some sort of “bad” or abnormal formation between the arteries and veins.
Typically, oxygen-rich blood is carried to the body’s tissues via arteries. Large arteries split into smaller and smaller arteries, and feed into capillary beds, where cells exchange oxygen for carbon dioxide. The capillaries then feed into larger and larger veins, which carry deoxygenated blood away from the tissues. Normally, arterial blood is under a high-pressure system, and as it goes through smaller and smaller vessels, and ultimately into the capillary bed, pressure in the vessels becomes significantly lower, and blood drains into the lower pressure systemic veins. So, this capillary bed dampens the arterial flow a bit.
With AVM, this whole capillary bed isn’t there, and a group of arteries directly link up with a group of veins instead. The vessels in the AVM can start to tangle up and are called a nidus, which is Latin for “nest.” When a single artery and a single vein link up abnormally like this, it’s called an arteriovenous fistula.
In AVM, the arteries and the veins are both under high systolic blood pressures because there are no capillaries to dampen the pressure, which means that the AVM can expand in size over time and can put pressure on the surrounding tissue. This pressure on surrounding capillaries can pinch them shut and prevent that functional tissue from getting blood flow. Also, the high pressure causes the arteries supplying blood to dilate and the veins to thicken and undergo fibrosis. Vessel walls are also prone to forming aneurysms, which are these balloon-like protrusions. Because the vessel walls are weakened and stretched out, they are also at risk for ripping and tearing.
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