Surgical treatment of moyamoya disease in children.

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...

Invited article: surgical management of Moyamoya disease.

OBJECTIVE Various types of revascularization surgery have been performed for moyamoya disease, and there have been controversies about the surgical procedures. In this report, we introduce our surgical strategy of moyamoya disease and discuss the various surgical procedure options. METHODS The subjects consisted of 13 consecutive patients (8 children, 5 adults) with moyamoya disease who were ...

Clinical features of moyamoya disease in the United States.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE We report the clinical features and longitudinal outcome of the largest cohort of patients with moyamoya disease described from a single institution in the western hemisphere. Moyamoya disease in Asia usually presents with ischemic stroke in children and intracranial hemorrhage in adults. METHODS Our study population included all patients with moyamoya disease evaluated...

Moyamoya: Indiana University Medical Center experience.

BACKGROUND Moyamoya usually presents with cerebral ischemia in children and intracranial hemorrhage in adults. Treatment remains controversial. DESIGN AND OBJECTIVE We reviewed our experience from June 1995 to August 1999 of 20 adult and pediatric angiographically diagnosed patients with moyamoya to report their clinical presentation, radiological findings, management, and clinical outcomes. ...

Study and Surgical Treatment of Moyamoya Disease

Moyamoya disease presents clinically as chronic progressive ischemia in the young brain. The brain is surrounded by concentric collateral networks but all of these networks are not available as collaterals in the early stage of cerebral ischemia. The anatomical characteristics precluding their early use include the presence of the watery layer of subarachnoid fluid between the cortical and dura...

Letter by Jiang Regarding Article, "Hemorrhagic Moyamoya Disease in Children: Clinical, Angiographic Features, and Long-Term Surgical Outcome".