Twenty-eight cases of the infantile arterio-venous malformation (age below 16 years) out of overall 116 A-VM experienced in past 10 years were clinically discussed.
The initial clinical symptom was subarachnoid hemorrhage in 25 cases and seizure episode in 3 cases. The operative intervension was performed in 17 cases in which the mortality was none. Whereas 11 non-operative cases recorded 1 expired case due to intracranial hemorrhage.
The prognosis in the operated group is as follow … 13 cases (76.5%) show no neurological defecit and 4 cases (23. 5%) manifest minimal neurological sequella.
The infantile cases used to show better and prompter recovery in post-operative neurological compli cations than in the adult cases and rather apt to repeat hemorrhage episode more frequently. Ac cordingly we basically to consider the positive operative procedure for the infantile A-VM except for the ones situated in basal ganglia or brain stem.
