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News items on 'Arteriovenous Malformations'
My face was saved with surgical lava
(Daily Express 28/07/2009)
"Nikki stopped going to school because she didn%u2019t know when the next bleed was going to happen. She was getting weak because she was losing so much blood. I was desperately worried." Finally Nikki, who is now 13, was found to have a tangle of abnormal blood vessels stretching like a spider's web across her whole lower jaw and chin. It is known as an AVM, or Arteriovenous Malformation.
Mother accused of abusing daughter, 9, with rare skin disease that makes her look like a child abuse victim
(Daily Mail 16/10/2008)
Brave Bethan-May Slater manages a beautiful beaming smile - despite suffering one of the world's rarest conditions which makes her look like she has been battered black and blue. In fact, mother Jacqui has been accused of attacking her daughter. Bethan-May is one of just 14 people in the UK diagnosed with glomuvenous malformation (GVM).
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