Abstract
Local hemodynamics were investigated during 33 operations for cerebral arteriovenous malformation (AVM). In all cases, microvascular Doppler sonography was used to measure flow velocities and vasomotor reactivity to CO2 changes. Intravascular pressure recordings were performed in six patients. The AVM feeders had low intravascular pressure, high flow velocity, low peripheral stream resistance, and very poor vasomotor reactivity. Remote brain arteries showed no abnormalities. Doppler findings in arterial branches of AVM feeders that supplied normal brain indicated arteriolar dilation in their peripheral distribution. On removal of the angiomas, the arteries that formerly supplied them showed a return to normal intravascular pressure, whereas flow velocities dropped far below normal in these vessels. Remote arteries and branches of the former AVM feeders supplying the brain did not show any signs of impaired vasomotor reactivity following angioma removal. The results are in contrast to the normal perfusion pressure breakthrough theory.
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