Angioplasty for acute stroke with pediatric moyamoya syndrome. uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Moyamoya vasculopathy is a progressive, occlusive vasculopathy leading to ischemic and hemorrhagic strokes. No treatments are established to treat acute ischemic stroke with moyamoya vasculopathy. A 3-year-old girl with moyamoya syndrome developed acute left hemiplegia. Emergent angiography showed near-occlusion of the supraclinoid segment of the right internal carotid artery. Balloon angioplasty was performed within 6 hours of symptom onset, with significant improvement in the child's neurological symptoms. This is the youngest case of intracranial balloon angioplasty, and this article discusses the paucity of data regarding angioplasty and other forms of endovascular intervention in pediatric cerebrovascular disease and moyamoya vasculopathy. Further study is needed to determine the safety and efficacy of endovascular intervention in these diseases.

publication date

  • May 26, 2010

Research

keywords

  • Angioplasty, Balloon
  • Carotid Artery, Internal
  • Cerebral Arteries
  • Infarction, Anterior Cerebral Artery
  • Moyamoya Disease
  • Stroke

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 77958017420

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1177/0883073809357471

PubMed ID

  • 20505156

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 25

issue

  • 10