Arteriovenous Malformation - Society and Culture

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• On December 13, 2006, Senator Tim Johnson was diagnosed with AVM and treated at George Washington University Hospital.

• On August 3, 2011, Mike Patterson of the Philadelphia Eagles collapsed on the field and suffered a seizure during a practice. After he collapsed, Patterson was rushed to the hospital where he was diagnosed with AVM.

• Six Feet Under, an American television series that ran on HBO from 2001–2005, featured a protagonist, Nate Fisher, that suffered from AVM, a recurring feature in the storyline of this character.

• On August 1, 2007, NIH/NINDS decides to launch the first international study evaluating the best treatment strategy for patients with unruptured brain AVMs: ARUBA — A Randomizd trial of Unruptured Brain AVMs.

• Actor Ricardo Montalbán was born with spinal AVM. During the filming of the 1951 film Across the Wide Missouri, Montalbán was thrown from his horse, knocked unconscious, and trampled by another horse which aggravated his AVM and resulted in a painful back injury that never healed. The pain increased as he aged, and in 1993, Montalbán underwent 9½ hours of spinal surgery which left him paralysed below the waist and using a wheelchair.