While living in Ohio, Vicky Peck discovered she had a hereditary
disorder called HHT (Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiecstasia) which causes veins
and arteries to grow side by side, often fused together, instead of separated by
a bed of capillaries. When high-pressure arterial blood enters the vein next to
the artery it can cause a weakness called an Arterio-Venous Malformation (AVM).
Vicky had an AVM and underwent a process called coil embolization while she was in Ohio. Later,
here in Birmingham, Vicky went to UAB where she discovered that her original AVM
had not been completely repaired. She underwent a minimally invasive procedure at
the
UAB Heart & Vascular Center to address the potentially life-threatening
problem.
