Ruben J. Crespo-Diaz, M.D., Ph.D.

'Thank you feels inadequate:' Finding hope at Mayo Clinic

By the time Dr. Jamie Kane arrived at Mayo Clinic in 2024, he had largely stopped believing his condition could be cured. For nearly a decade, Jamie had lived with a head and neck arteriovenous malformation (AVM), enduring repeated procedures, chronic pain and growing risks to his heart. "I had kind of settled into thinking, 'OK, this is just a lifelong condition,'" says Jamie. A diagnosis that changed everything Jamie's symptoms appeared in 2015 during…