Module 14 — Cerebrovascular Disease II: AVMs, Fistulas, Cavernomas, and Hemorrhage

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[Verse 1]
Feeders threading in, the nidus tangled at the core,
Draining veins stretched thin, high-pressure shunting through the floor,
Spetzler-Martin grades it — size, location, venous depth,
One through five, the surgeon weighs each point against the breath,
Flow-related aneurysms clinging to the feeder wall,
Intranidal weak spots — either one can make it fall,
Two to four percent per year, that's hemorrhage odds untreated,
Prior bleed, deep drainage, deep location — risk is seeded

[Chorus]
Сосуды рвутся тихо — кровь считает дни,
Feeders first, vein last, don't cut the wrong supply,
Смотри на градус риска, взвешивай слова —
ARUBA said "observe" but the data showed its flaws, yeah,
Feeders first, vein last, circumferential and slow,
Облитерация — куда бы ты ни шёл

[Verse 2]
ARUBA randomized but only followed thirty months,
Unruptured AVMs need decades, not a once,
Young patients, lifelong risk — the trial critics argued hard,
Selection bias skewed it, surgical cases scarred,
So counsel honestly: natural history compounds with age,
Radiosurgery carries latency — obliteration lags,
Twelve to thirty-six months waiting while the gamma knife does work,
Radiation necrosis lurks beneath the postop smirk

[Chorus]
Сосуды рвутся тихо — кровь считает дни,
Feeders first, vein last, don't cut the wrong supply,
Смотри на градус риска, взвешивай слова —
ARUBA said "observe" but the data showed its flaws, yeah,
Feeders first, vein last, circumferential and slow,
Облитерация — куда бы ты ни шёл

[Verse 3]
Dural fistula draining — Borden tells you one through three,
Cognard adds the detail of where cortical reflux flees,
Transverse-sigmoid, ethmoidal, tentorial and SSS,
Cortical venous reflux marks the ones that cause distress,
Transarterial Onyx, transvenous coil the sinus down,
Surgical disconnection when the endovascular drowns,
Cavernous sinus fistula — Barrow classifies the flow,
Direct traumatic shunting versus dural feeders, slow

[Bridge]
Cavernoma bleeds in centimeters, not the liters of an AVM,
Brainstem lesions wait for two events before you enter them,
CCM one, two, three — familial gene mutations mark the map,
The developmental venous anomaly — hands off, never tap,
Capillary telangiectasia glows on MRI contrast wash,
Benign, no treatment needed, recognition is enough

[Verse 4]
Hypertensive hemorrhage — basal ganglia, thalamus, pons,
Cerebellum bleeds compress the fourth ventricle and brainstem,
Lobar bleeds in amyloid angiopathy, elderly cortex,
INR reversed with four-factor PCC — correct it,
CT-A spots the spot sign, predicts expansion overnight,
Surgical thresholds: cerebellar over three centimeters, right,
MISTIE, CLEAR, ENRICH — trials carving evacuation's place,
Minimally invasive, thrombolytic — clearing clot with grace

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