1998 Off-Broadway musical A New Brain about the experience. Former Florida Gators and Oakland Raiders linebacker Neiron Ball was diagnosed with AVM in 2011 while playing for Florida, but recovered and was cleared to play. On September 16, 2018, Ball was placed in a medically induced coma due to complications of the disease, which lasted until his death on September 10, 2019. Country music singer Drake White was diagnosed with AVM in January 2019, and is undergoing treatment. Cultural Depictions In the 2005 Lifetime film Dawn Anna, the titular character learns she has AVM, and undergoes a serious operation and subsequent rehabilitation, which she recovers from. In the HBO series Six Feet Under (TV series), main character Nate Fisher discovers he has an AVM after being in a car accident and getting a precautionary cat scan at the hospital during Season 1. His AVM becomes a key focus during Season 2 and again in Season 5. In season 1 episode 9 of House titled "DNR" jazz musician John Henry Giles has an AVM and is misdiagnosed with ALS Research Despite many years of research, the central question of whether to treat AVMs has not been answered. All treatments, whether involving surgery, radiation, or drugs, have risks and side-effects. Therefore, it might be better in some cases to avoid treatment altogether and simply accept a small risk of coming to harm from the AVM itself. This question is currently being addressed in clinical trials. See also Foix–Alajouanine syndrome Haemangioma Klippel–Trénaunay syndrome Parkes Weber syndrome References Congenital vascular defects Gross pathology RASopathies