Treatment of Patients with an Orphan Vascular Damage – Moyamoya Angiopathy

A neurosurgeon of vascular division, Konstantin S.Ovsyannikov visited one of the leading Center of Pediatric Stroke hosted by Morozov’s pediatric municipal hospital (Moscow) for the purpose of experience exchange with the specialists of neurosurgical division. They discussed in detail the issues of treatment patients with orphan vascular damage – Moyamoya angiopathy^* affected by a severe genetic blood disease.

Similar dialogue between neurosurgeons of various medical organizations generally contributes to neurosurgery development.

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*Moyamoya disease (translated from Japanese as “cigarette smoke”) is an orphan disease that is characterized by increasing stenosis or occlusion of inner carotid arteries and / or middle cerebral arteries, anterior cerebral arteries, with progression of abnormal vascular moyamoya net in cases of presence of additional disorders the patient’s state is determined as moyamoya syndrome.