Moyamoya Syndrome in a 32-Year-Old Male With Sickle Cell Anemia

Moyamoya disease (MMD) is an unusual vasculopathy in which the blood vessels of the brain are occluded, resulting in thrombosis. When MMD occurs in association with an underlying pathology, it is known as moyamoya syndrome. The association of moyamoya syndrome with sickle cell disease is uncommon. H...

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Autores principales: Yamani, Mariam, Obaid, Elaf F, Hemida, Amr H
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7515146/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32983699
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.10001
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author Yamani, Mariam
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description Moyamoya disease (MMD) is an unusual vasculopathy in which the blood vessels of the brain are occluded, resulting in thrombosis. When MMD occurs in association with an underlying pathology, it is known as moyamoya syndrome. The association of moyamoya syndrome with sickle cell disease is uncommon. Herein, we report a case of moyamoya syndrome in a 32-year-old male adult patient.
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spelling pubmed-75151462020-09-26 Moyamoya Syndrome in a 32-Year-Old Male With Sickle Cell Anemia Yamani, Mariam Obaid, Elaf F Hemida, Amr H Cureus Internal Medicine Moyamoya disease (MMD) is an unusual vasculopathy in which the blood vessels of the brain are occluded, resulting in thrombosis. When MMD occurs in association with an underlying pathology, it is known as moyamoya syndrome. The association of moyamoya syndrome with sickle cell disease is uncommon. Herein, we report a case of moyamoya syndrome in a 32-year-old male adult patient. Cureus 2020-08-24 /pmc/articles/PMC7515146/ /pubmed/32983699 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.10001 Text en Copyright © 2020, Yamani 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.
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Yamani, Mariam
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Hemida, Amr H
Moyamoya Syndrome in a 32-Year-Old Male With Sickle Cell Anemia
title Moyamoya Syndrome in a 32-Year-Old Male With Sickle Cell Anemia
title_full Moyamoya Syndrome in a 32-Year-Old Male With Sickle Cell Anemia
title_fullStr Moyamoya Syndrome in a 32-Year-Old Male With Sickle Cell Anemia
title_full_unstemmed Moyamoya Syndrome in a 32-Year-Old Male With Sickle Cell Anemia
title_short Moyamoya Syndrome in a 32-Year-Old Male With Sickle Cell Anemia
title_sort moyamoya syndrome in a 32-year-old male with sickle cell anemia
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7515146/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32983699
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.10001
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