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South Carolina 15-Year-Old Walks Off Soccer Field with a Headache — It Turns Out to Be a Brain Bleed (Exclusive)
Jase McDowell had a headache during a soccer game before becoming ill. Doctors diagnosed him with a brain bleed and he is awaiting surgery to remove a tangle of blood vessels, his mom tells PEOPLE exclusively.
At the hospital he was diagnosed with a ruptured arteriovenous malformation (AVM), a tangle of blood vessels that connects arteries and veins in the brain, according to Mayo Clinic. The two-hour surgery was successful and Jase was transported to the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) in Charleston, where a neuroendovascular surgeon performed an embolism to block blood flow to the AVM in hopes of shrinking it. McDowell is overwhelmed by the outpouring of love and support Jase has received, not just from friends in Myrtle Beach but across the country and around the world.
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