A Case Report of Moyamoya Disease Presenting as Headache in a 35-year-old Hispanic Man

Moyamoya disease (MMD) is a rare, chronic vaso-occlusive disease affecting the arteries of the Circle of Willis, leading to the development of characteristic collateral vessels. In this paper, we present a case of a 35-year-old Hispanic male who presented to the emergency department with new onset h...

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Autores principales: Azzam, Daniel B, Sharma, Ajay N, Tiourin, Ekaterina, Chan, Alvin Y
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
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Emergency Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6559385/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31245213
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4426
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author Azzam, Daniel B
Sharma, Ajay N
Tiourin, Ekaterina
Chan, Alvin Y
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description Moyamoya disease (MMD) is a rare, chronic vaso-occlusive disease affecting the arteries of the Circle of Willis, leading to the development of characteristic collateral vessels. In this paper, we present a case of a 35-year-old Hispanic male who presented to the emergency department with new onset headaches. On examination, Glasgow Coma Scale score was 3T. The patient was investigated with head CT scan and cerebral angiogram, diagnosed as MMD, and treated with emergent ventriculostomy. Ultimately, the patient underwent extracranial-intracranial (EC-IC) bypass surgery for treatment of Moyamoya.
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spelling pubmed-65593852019-06-26 A Case Report of Moyamoya Disease Presenting as Headache in a 35-year-old Hispanic Man Azzam, Daniel B Sharma, Ajay N Tiourin, Ekaterina Chan, Alvin Y Cureus Emergency Medicine Moyamoya disease (MMD) is a rare, chronic vaso-occlusive disease affecting the arteries of the Circle of Willis, leading to the development of characteristic collateral vessels. In this paper, we present a case of a 35-year-old Hispanic male who presented to the emergency department with new onset headaches. On examination, Glasgow Coma Scale score was 3T. The patient was investigated with head CT scan and cerebral angiogram, diagnosed as MMD, and treated with emergent ventriculostomy. Ultimately, the patient underwent extracranial-intracranial (EC-IC) bypass surgery for treatment of Moyamoya. Cureus 2019-04-10 /pmc/articles/PMC6559385/ /pubmed/31245213 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4426 Text en Copyright © 2019, Azzam et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Emergency Medicine
Azzam, Daniel B
Sharma, Ajay N
Tiourin, Ekaterina
Chan, Alvin Y
A Case Report of Moyamoya Disease Presenting as Headache in a 35-year-old Hispanic Man
title A Case Report of Moyamoya Disease Presenting as Headache in a 35-year-old Hispanic Man
title_full A Case Report of Moyamoya Disease Presenting as Headache in a 35-year-old Hispanic Man
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title_full_unstemmed A Case Report of Moyamoya Disease Presenting as Headache in a 35-year-old Hispanic Man
title_short A Case Report of Moyamoya Disease Presenting as Headache in a 35-year-old Hispanic Man
title_sort case report of moyamoya disease presenting as headache in a 35-year-old hispanic man
topic Emergency Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6559385/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4426
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