Moyamoya disease-its symptoms and etiology

Moyamoya Disease Mimicking Encephalitis

Moyamoya disease is a rare vaso-occlusive illness with an unknown etiology characterized by stenosis of the internal carotid arteries with spontaneous development of a collateral vascular network.A 15-month-old girl was referred to the emergency ward of Imam Reza Hospital due to decreased level of consciousness, focal seizures and fever during the previous 24 hours with an impression of encepha...

Moyamoya disease and moyamoya syndrome.

Copyright © 2009 Massachusetts Medical Society. The moyamoya syndrome is a cerebrovascular condition that predisposes affected patients to stroke in association with progressive stenosis of the intracranial internal carotid arteries and their proximal branches. Reduced blood flow in the major vessels of the anterior circulation of the brain leads to compensatory development of collateral vascul...

Beri-Beri; Its Etiology, Symptoms, Treatment and Pathology

same disease in Assam. Dr. Bentley shews that the kidneys are not affected in beri-beri, and that albumen is not found in the urine, statements which tally with our own experience. We also speak from observation when we say that the pernicious form of anajmia, produced in some persons by the ravages of Anchylostomum duodcnale, cannot be confounded with beri-beri. Beri-beri seems to be a disease...

Movable Kidney: Its Etiology, Pathology, Diagnosis, Symptoms and Treatment

Moyamoya disease in China: its clinical features and outcomes.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Here we describe the clinical features and outcomes of patients with moyamoya disease who were surgically treated at a single institution in China. METHODS Our cohort included 802 patients with moyamoya disease. Demographic and clinical characteristics were obtained by retrospective chart review; follow-up information and outcome were obtained through clinical visits, t...