Moyamoya disease in an 8-year-old boy presenting with weakness

Pediatr Emerg Care. 2009 May;25(5):336-8. doi: 10.1097/PEC.0b013e3181a34914.

Abstract

Moyamoya disease is a progressive, unilateral, or bilateral carotid artery stenosis of unknown etiology. It often presents in children as a transient ischemic attack, with a focal neurological deficit. This case describes an 8-year-old boy who presented with left-sided weakness secondary to moyamoya vasculopathy.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Anti-Inflammatory Agents / therapeutic use
  • Aspirin / therapeutic use
  • Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity / complications
  • Brain Ischemia / diagnosis
  • Brain Ischemia / etiology
  • Child
  • Combined Modality Therapy
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Drug Therapy, Combination
  • Encephalitis / diagnosis
  • Headache / etiology
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Male
  • Methylprednisolone / therapeutic use
  • Moyamoya Disease / complications
  • Moyamoya Disease / diagnosis*
  • Moyamoya Disease / diagnostic imaging
  • Moyamoya Disease / drug therapy
  • Moyamoya Disease / surgery
  • Muscle Weakness / etiology*
  • Neurosurgical Procedures
  • Platelet Aggregation Inhibitors / therapeutic use
  • Respiratory Tract Infections / complications
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed

Substances

  • Anti-Inflammatory Agents
  • Platelet Aggregation Inhibitors
  • Aspirin
  • Methylprednisolone