Fascinating Case Presentation of Moyamoya Disease in Children and Adults

Moyamoya disease is a rare idiopathic disease characterized by progressive stenosis and collateral development of the distal internal carotid arteries. It is mainly seen in East Asia and is the most common cause of stroke in Asian children. However, it is rare in the Indian subcontinent. We present...

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Autores principales: Rajamani, Logesh, Tewari, Siddharth, Rangasami, Rajeswaran
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9946924/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36843764
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.34081
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description Moyamoya disease is a rare idiopathic disease characterized by progressive stenosis and collateral development of the distal internal carotid arteries. It is mainly seen in East Asia and is the most common cause of stroke in Asian children. However, it is rare in the Indian subcontinent. We present three exciting cases of moyamoya disease with varied clinical presentations in one pediatric, one young adult, and one older patient.
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spelling pubmed-99469242023-02-24 Fascinating Case Presentation of Moyamoya Disease in Children and Adults Rajamani, Logesh Tewari, Siddharth Rangasami, Rajeswaran Cureus Internal Medicine Moyamoya disease is a rare idiopathic disease characterized by progressive stenosis and collateral development of the distal internal carotid arteries. It is mainly seen in East Asia and is the most common cause of stroke in Asian children. However, it is rare in the Indian subcontinent. We present three exciting cases of moyamoya disease with varied clinical presentations in one pediatric, one young adult, and one older patient. Cureus 2023-01-23 /pmc/articles/PMC9946924/ /pubmed/36843764 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.34081 Text en Copyright © 2023, Rajamani et al. https://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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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9946924/
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