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Brain AVM

Image of a brain AVM

The shaded area in this image shows a brain AVM (arteriovenous malformation) — which appears as a tangle of normal-sized and dilated blood vessels. In a brain AVM, blood passes directly from your arteries to your veins via abnormal vessels. This disrupts the normal process of how blood circulates through your brain.

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