Pediatric moyamoya disease

Moyamoya disease, also known as Moyamoya disease or spontaneous basal artery occlusive disease, is a type of thickening of the arterial intima of the bilateral internal carotid artery and the front of the brain and the middle of the brain. A disease characterized by compensatory dilation of perforating arteries in the brain. The origin of the name of the smoke is that during cerebral angiography, the bottom of the brain shows a fuzzy network shadow due to abnormal proliferation of capillaries, like a smoke emitted by smoking , Hence the name. Moyamoya is the pronunciation of Japanese smoke. The essence of this disease is occlusion of the main artery of the cerebral base with compensatory angiogenesis.

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