Dysgraphia and dysprosody in a patient with arteriovenous malformation: a case report

ABSTRACT

Arteriovenous malformation (AVM) results from development of abnormal connections between veins and arteries. This study reported anAVM case suffering from dysgraphia and dysprosody. According to the results after the trauma, the patient’s handwriting was identified as macrographic and illegible, and written letters and verbs were neglected in free writing or dictation. Moreover, prosody of the patient’s utterances was changed. Finally, an intervention was conducted to improve the writing impairments whereby they eventually enhanced. AVM can adversely affect communication opportunities and working life due to these impairments. Thus referring the patient to speech and language pathologists seems sensible and necessary.

KEYWORDS:

• Arteriovenous malformation
• Dysgraphia
• Dysprosody
• Writing skills
• Prosody
• Lateralization

Authorship contribution statement

Shahryar Zainaee: conceptualization, methodology, investigation, software, writing – original draft, writing – review and editing, visualization, formal analysis. Ramin Mahdipour: resource, methodology, writing – original draft, investigation, formal analysis, visualization. Masoud Mahdavi: formal analysis, visualization. Davood Sobhani-Rad: project administration, supervision.

Disclosure of potential conflicts of interest

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

Highlights

• AVM lesion in left hemisphere can lead to writing problems.

• AVM lesion in left hemisphere can flaw prosody of speech.

• AVM can adversely affect communication opportunities and working life.

• Early appropriate intervention can considerably improve impaired writing skills.

Additional information

Funding

This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.