This is a wonderfully productive time in understanding cavernoma. There has been a massive amount of research in recent years aimed at finding a cure which has resulted in an understanding of the science of cavernoma formation, growth and genetics. Totally unexpected findings turn up that are critical – the exciting part of science. The application of this research is crucial to identifying potential drugs for reducing or preventing bleeding, for non-invasive ways of detecting the presence of cavernoma from blood and urine samples, of anticipating bleeding in advance of other signals. These outcomes are not available for treatments yet but are on the foreseeable horizon.

These blogs explain this research for the non-scientist in more detail than is in the material provided by Cavernoma Alliance UK and Angioma Alliance (CAUK’s sister organisation in the USA), but keeping it such that non-scientists/medics can understand. They will describe what happens inside and between the cells that form the walls of blood capillaries in the brain – the cells that form a cavernoma, the importance and function of the three known cavernoma genes, the way that these findings are being exploited to finding a cure. These outcomes are not available for treatments yet but are on the foreseeable horizon.