ORPHA:97339
Dural sinus malformation with arteriovenous shunt
Also known as: Cranial dural arteriovenous fistula · Dural sinus malformation with arteriovenous fistulae
Query health: suspect — Only one of 2 strategies returned hits (phrase).
Publications
70
51.6th percentile
Trials
0
Interventional, condition-specific
Researchers
363
Distinct authors in sample
Gene link
—
Readiness
1/6
Stages with a signal
Clinical definition (Orphanet)
A rare neurovascular characterized by massive dilation of one or more dural sinuses typically associated with arteriovenous shunts. Anatomic types are the lateral type involving the jugular bulb, which presents with minimal symptoms, and the usually symptomatic midline type involving the confluens sinuum (torcular Herophili) and adjacent posterior sinuses. Complications include sinus thrombosis, venous infarction, and cerebral hemorrhage, as well as cardiac failure, macrocrania, and hydrocephalus. Spontaneous regression of the may occur.
How rare: How common this is has not been clearly measured.
Cross-references
Joined from Mondo / Orphanet. MeSH labels may enter searches; UMLS / OMIM / NCIT are stored for reference.
- MONDO:0019972
- UMLS:C3839148
Additional Mondo synonyms (2)
cranial dural arteriovenous fistula · cranial dural arteriovenous malformations
Research stages
Trial readiness signals
Where this condition sits on an open-data research pipeline — not how close a treatment is, and not medical advice. Empty stages often mean “not in these databases under this Mondo ID,” not “impossible.”
1/6 stages with a signal
Research-stage checklist from open sources (GenCC, literature, Monarch when enriched, ClinicalTrials.gov). Not a prognosis or care recommendation.
- Gene identifiedNot found
No GenCC disease–gene assertion in this build
- LiteraturePresent
70 matched papers (45 in last 10 years) Source
- Phenotype characterisedNot checked
Not yet enriched from Monarch / HPO
- Animal modelNot checked
Not yet enriched from Monarch / Alliance
- Orphan designationNot checked
FDA/EMA orphan-drug designation not enriched yet
- Interventional trialNot found
No matched interventional trial under our ClinicalTrials.gov rules
Biology
Genes and phenotypes
Gene–disease validity from GenCC, plus phenotypes and animal models joined from Monarch Initiative via Mondo ID — not a clinical diagnosis aid.
Do we know what causes it?
Not yet — the cause hasn't been pinned down in GenCC.
No strong gene–disease assertion joined for this Orphanet entity.
Phenotypes (Monarch / HPO)
Not enriched in this build — Monarch phenotype joins were not run for this record.
Animal models (Monarch / Alliance)
Not enriched in this build.
Literature
Is anyone studying this?
70
70 papers have ever been published on this condition (under this name). For scale, breast cancer has over 700,000. Median papers in the last 10 years for a rare disease in this dataset (publications denominator n=5449) is 41.
70 papers since the earliest indexed year in this search — median last-10-year count for a rare disease in this dataset is 41 (publications denominator n=5449).
45 in the last 10 years · high confidence · 51.6th percentile (publications denominator)
Phrase hits: 70 · MeSH hits: 0
Who's working on it?
363
Distinct author names in 70 sampled papers — named people below.
Who's working on it?
No interventional trial matched this name; these authors publish on it in the sampled literature — a practical starting point for contact.
- 01Agid R2 papers · 2025
Division of Neuroradiology, Joint Department of Medical Imaging, Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network and University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Papers in Europe PMC - 02Baltsavias G2 papers · 2021
Department of Neuroradiology, University Hospital Zurich, Frauenklinikstrasse 10, 8091, Zurich, Switzerland, Gerasimos.Baltsavias@usz.ch.
Papers in Europe PMC - 03Chen HC2 papers · 2021
Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, Shuang Ho Hospital, Taipei Medical University, New Taipei City 235041, Taiwan.
Papers in Europe PMC - 04Chen PM2 papers · 2020
From the Department of Neurosciences (P.M.C., M.M.C., K.M., J.N.L.), University of California, San Diego.
Papers in Europe PMC - 05Deuschl C2 papers · 2022
Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology and Neuroradiology, Faculty of Medicine University Hospital Essen, University Hospital Essen, Hufelandstrasse 55, 45147, Essen, Germany.
Papers in Europe PMC - 06Forsting M2 papers · 2022
Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology and Neuroradiology, Faculty of Medicine University Hospital Essen, University Hospital Essen, Hufelandstrasse 55, 45147, Essen, Germany.
Papers in Europe PMC - 07Gupta V2 papers · 2026
Department of Neurointerventional Surgery, Artemis Agrim Institute of Neurosciences, Gurgaon, India.
Papers in Europe PMC - 08Handwerker J2 papers · 2020
Department of Radiology (M.M., J.H.), University of California, San Diego.
Papers in Europe PMC - 09Jabbarli R2 papers · 2022
Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany.
Papers in Europe PMC - 10Krings T2 papers · 2025
Division of Neuroradiology, Joint Department of Medical Imaging, Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network and University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Papers in Europe PMC
Clinical research
Is a treatment being tested?
0
interventional trials for this specific condition
No interventional trial testing a treatment matched this specific condition name on ClinicalTrials.gov (observational studies and pan-disease registries are listed separately when present).
Data as of 27 July 2026
No matched interventional trials. This is true for 73% of diseases in the trials denominator (5114 of 7003). Here are the researchers publishing on it.
high confidence · 36.5th percentile (trials denominator)
Recruiting interventional trials
From the matched ClinicalTrials.gov set
No interventional trial testing a treatment was found for this specific condition name on ClinicalTrials.gov.
See who's working on it — people publishing on this disease are often the practical next contact when no trial is listed.
Where to find support
We do not yet link condition-specific patient organisations. These umbrella groups support undiagnosed and ultra-rare families:
India — NPRD
Last verified 2026-07-26This ORPHAcode is not on our curated NPRD list (direct or Mondo-parent match). That does not decide clinical eligibility; families in India should ask a notified Centre of Excellence about current coverage.
Hand-curated for this project. ORPHAcode mappings are best-effort and may be incomplete or imprecise for umbrella categories. Parent (Mondo) matches mean the policy lists a broader category — confirm eligibility with a Centre of Excellence. Financial entitlements summarised from public policy statements and may change. This is not official government guidance.
How we counted this
Europe PMC query (preferred label + any corrected label + Orphanet and Mondo exact synonyms, stoplisted; unioned with resolved MeSH labels when available). UMLS / OMIM / NCIT cross-references are stored on the overview but are not added to the query string.
"Dural sinus malformation with arteriovenous shunt" OR "Cranial dural arteriovenous fistula" OR "Dural sinus malformation with arteriovenous fistulae" OR "cranial dural arteriovenous malformations"
ClinicalTrials.gov query (quoted phrases + MeSH via query.cond, plus recall-expansion terms when used):
"Dural sinus malformation with arteriovenous shunt" OR "Cranial dural arteriovenous fistula" OR "Dural sinus malformation with arteriovenous fistulae" OR "cranial dural arteriovenous malformations" OR "arteriovenous hemangioma/malformation"
Recall-expansion terms: arteriovenous hemangioma/malformation
Study-type breakdown: 0 interventional · 0 observational · 0 expanded access. Only interventional studies enter the trial headline.
Query health: suspect — strategies attempted: phrase, recall-expansion; with hits: phrase
Run this search on ClinicalTrials.gov
Confidence reasoning
- Preferred label is multi-word and distinctive
- No synonyms dropped by stoplist
- No label/synonym collisions with other diseases in this corpus
Ingested 2026-07-27T05:11:35.827Z