The role of surgical disconnection for posterior fossa pial arteriovenous fistulas and dural fistulas with pial supply: an illustrative case series.

Autor: Golub D; Department of Neurosurgery, Northwell Health, Manhasset, NY, USA. Dgolub1@northwell.edu., Lynch DG; Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell Health, Hempstead, NY, USA., Mehta SH; Department of Neurosurgery, Northwell Health, Manhasset, NY, USA., Donaldson H; Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA., Shah KA; Department of Neurosurgery, Northwell Health, Manhasset, NY, USA., White TG; Department of Neurosurgery, Northwell Health, Manhasset, NY, USA., Quach ET; Department of Neurosurgery, Northwell Health, Manhasset, NY, USA., Papadimitriou K; Department of Neurosurgery, Northwell Health, Manhasset, NY, USA., Kuffer AF; Department of Neurosurgery, Northwell Health, Manhasset, NY, USA., Woo HH; Department of Neurosurgery, Northwell Health, Manhasset, NY, USA., Link TW; Department of Neurosurgery, Northwell Health, Manhasset, NY, USA., Patsalides A; Department of Neurosurgery, Northwell Health, Manhasset, NY, USA., Dehdashti AR; Department of Neurosurgery, Northwell Health, Manhasset, NY, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Neurosurgical review [Neurosurg Rev] 2024 Apr 25; Vol. 47 (1), pp. 189. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Apr 25.
DOI: 10.1007/s10143-024-02407-y
Abstrakt: Background: Pial arteriovenous fistulas (pAVFs) are rare vascular malformations characterized by high-flow arteriovenous shunting involving a cortical arterial supply directly connecting to venous drainage without an intermediate nidus. Dural arteriovenous fistulas (dAVFs) can infrequently involve additional pial feeders which can introduce higher flow shunting and increase the associated treatment risk. In the posterior fossa, arteriovenous fistula (AVF) angioarchitecture tends to be particularly complex, involving either multiple arterial feeders-sometimes from both dural and pial origins-or small caliber vessels that are difficult to catheterize and tend to be intimately involved with functionally critical brainstem or upper cervical cord structures. Given their rarity, published experience on microsurgical or endovascular treatment strategies for posterior fossa pAVFs and dAVFs with pial supply remains limited.
Methods: Retrospective chart review from 2019-2023 at a high-volume center identified six adult patients with posterior fossa pAVFs that were unable to be fully treated endovascularly and required microsurgical disconnection. These cases are individually presented with a technical emphasis and supported by comprehensive angiographic and intraoperative images.
Results: One vermian (Case 1), three cerebellopontine angle (Cases 2-4) and two craniovertebral junction (Cases 5-6) posterior fossa pAVFs or dAVFs with pial supply are presented. Three cases involved mixed dural and pial arterial supply (Cases 1, 4, and 6), and one case involved a concomitant microAVM (Case 2). Endovascular embolization was attempted in four cases (Cases 1-4): The small caliber and tortuosity of the main arterial feeder prevented catheterization in two cases (Cases 1 and 3). Partial embolization was achieved in Cases 2 and 4. In Cases 5 and 6, involvement of the lateral spinal artery or anterior spinal artery created a prohibitive risk for endovascular embolization, and surgical clip ligation was pursued as primary management. In all cases, microsurgical disconnection resulted in complete fistula obliteration without evidence of recurrence on follow-up imaging (mean follow-up 27.1 months). Two patients experienced persistent post-treatment sensory deficits without significant functional limitation.
Conclusions: This illustrative case series highlights the technical difficulties and anatomical limitations of endovascular management for posterior fossa pAVFs and dAVFs with pial supply and emphasizes the relative safety and utility of microsurgical disconnection in this context. A combined approach involving partial preoperative embolization-when the angioarchitecture is permissive-can potentially decrease surgical morbidity. Larger studies are warranted to better define the role for multimodal intervention and to assess associated long-term AVF obliteration rates in the setting of pial arterial involvement.
(© 2024. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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