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Journal of Pediatric Neuroradiology 2014; 03(01): 029-037
DOI: 10.3233/PNR-14084
Review Article
Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart – New York

Surgical treatment of pediatric moyamoya disease

Jay W. Rhee
a   Department of Neurosurgery, Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC, USA
,
Craig A. Tork
b   Medstar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC, USA
,
Orlando D. Sabbag
c   Georgetown University School of Medicine, Arlington, VA, USA
,
Suresh N. Magge
d   Division of Neurosurgery, Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA
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01 November 2013

12 December 2013

Publication Date:
29 July 2015 (online)

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Abstract

Cerebral ischemia is a well-recognized cause of morbidity in the pediatric population. Moyamoya disease, first described in 1957 by Takeuchi and Shimizu, is an idiopathic chronic vasculopathy that often presents with ischemia. Moyamoya syndrome presents with similar clinical manifestations and disease progression but may occur unilaterally or in the setting of a predisposing condition. Both direct and indirect revascularization procedures have proven to be efficacious for pediatric moyamoya patients.

Keywords

Moyamoya disease - Moyamoya syndrome - Encephaloduroarteriosynangiosis - EDAS - Superficial temporal artery to middle cerebral artery bypass - pial synangiosis - stroke - ischemia