The autopsy discovered that Griffith Joyner, 38, had a congenital blood vessel abnormality called a " cavernous angioma " on the front left part of her brain.
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In the French study, researcher Elisabeth Tournier-Lasserve and others examined unrelated patients from 20 families with histories of cavernous angiomas, including a high frequency of multiple lesions.
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The cutaneous lesion may be very faint and may be more pronounced when the patient performs a Valsalva maneuver which increases abdominal pressure and causes preferential filling of the cutaneous angioma.
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"Flojo " to fans and competitors, Griffith Joyner had a congenital brain abnormality known as cavernous angioma, said Dr . Barbara Zaias, one of the investigators.
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This disorder was to become known as " Maffucci's syndrome ", which he documented in an article titled " Di un caso encondroma ed angioma multiplo ".
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Dr . Barbara Zaias said Griffith Joyner had a " cavernous angioma " on the front left part of her brain, a condition found in about 25 percent of the population.
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Faulty copies of the gene, known as CCM1, are responsible for the development of tangled blood vessels in the brain known as cavernous angiomas, according to a study by three laboratories in Paris.
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Interestingly, thanks to EPI, diffusion and IVIM MRI could be extended outside the brain, and the very first hypothesis set by Denis Le Bihan to distinguish tumors from angiomas in the liver was confirmed.
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Linda Williams, 47, a medical secretary from Roanoke, Va ., had already lost her left eye to the disease when she was diagnosed with an angioma on the optic nerve of her right eye.
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The fingernails may be white, There may be thickening of the skin, excess hair or hair in unusual places ( hypertrichosis ), skin angiomas or haemangiomas, or there may be changes reminiscent of scleroderma.
