Spinal arteriovenous fistula can present with symptoms such as limb numbness, pain, abdominal distension, and bowel and bladder disorders.
Because the lesion caused by the spinal cord segments, venous reflux patency, the onset of the duration of different patients, so the symptoms of different patients with different severity. Depending on the spinal cord stasis that leads to bleeding in different lesion segments, the patient will have numbness, pain, and weakness of limbs on both sides or one side of the body. In addition, there are symptoms such as urinary urgency, difficulty in urination, and constipation.
The incidence of spinal arteriovenous fistula is low, clinically rare, and there are no obvious symptoms in the early stage of the lesion, so it is easy to be overlooked and often there is no way to diagnose, when the diagnosis is made, the patient’s medical history has been longer. Once diagnosed, early surgical treatment is required.