For much of the early part of 2022, Greta Tucker, then 14, experienced terrible headaches. Greta had an arteriovenous malformation (AVM), a jumble of veins nestled in her brain. These congenitally malformed veins can be deadly if they rupture.
For much of the early part of 2022, Greta Tucker, then 14, experienced terrible headaches.
“I had trouble sleeping,” Greta says. “I had to sit out of sports games and everything, and it sucked, getting to watch everyone else play and watch people take my spot.” Worried, Sue Tucker and her husband stopped Greta from playing sports until they better understood what having an AVM meant. Greta underwent an angiogram to help doctors better understand where the AVM rested in the brain.
That meant that doctors could “proactively” address the AVM before Greta experienced problems. While doctors take several approaches to treating them, surgery is often the go-to, which Smith describes as “disarming a bomb.” But for patients like Greta, brain surgery is too risky. She had stereotactic radiosurgery, “a fancy way of saying really really … targeted radiation.”
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