Moyamoya Disease : Diagnosis and Treatment

Moyamoya Disease: Diagnosis and Treatment covers the key clinical disciplines involved in managing patients with moyamoya disease, including diagnostic work up, imaging, neurocognitive evaluation, and surgical options for pediatric and adult patients. The text and accompanying videos provide neurosurgeons and other health professionals treating Moyamoya patients with all the information they need to make the right diagnostic and surgical decisions. Key Features: Includes online access to videos and animations, narrated by Dr. Wanebo, demonstrating surgical techniques discussed in the book Written and edited by world-renowned experts at the Barrow Neurological Institute and other centers of excellence focused on Moyamoya Covers these dynamic topics in Moyamoya: cortical microvasculature, genetics, neuropsychiatric evaluation, and endovascular therapy Contains detailed illustrations and descriptions of technical aspects of treatment such as the direct and indirect methods of revascularization All neurosurgeons and neurologists caring for Moyamoya patients will find this book to be an important reference that they will consult often in their daily practice. Moyamoya Disease: Diagnosis and Treatment -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedications -- Media Center Information -- Contents -- List of Videos -- Foreword -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- I Diagnosing Moyamoya Angiopathy: Definition, Classifications, Symptomatology -- 1 Moyamoya Disease and Moyamoya Syndrome -- 2 Classification and Imaging of Moyamoya Phenomena -- 3 The Natural History of Moyamoya Disease -- 4 Genetics of Moyamoya Angiopathy -- 5 Clinical Assessment of Cerebral Perfusion in Moyamoya Disease -- 6 Worldwide Epidemiology of Moyamoya Disease -- 7 Implications of Cortical Microvasculature in Adult Moyamoya Disease -- 8 Neuropsychological Considerations in the Assessment of Children and Adults with Moyamoya Disease -- II Treatment Options: Medical, Endovascular, Perioperative, and Surgical Management -- 9 Medical Management of Childhood Moyamoya -- 10 Pediatric Moyamoya -- 11 Endovascular Therapy for Moyamoya Disease -- 12 Indirect Revascularization Procedures for Moyamoya Disease -- 13 Direct Revascularization Procedures for Moyamoya Disease -- 14 Multiple Extracranial-Intracranial Bypass Surgery in Moyamoya Angiopathy -- 15 Direct and Indirect Bypass Procedures for Posterior Circulation Moyamoya Disease -- 16 Anesthetic and Perioperative Management of Moyamoya Disease -- III Regional Long-term Experience with Cerebral Revascularization -- 17 Long-term Results after Cerebral Revascularization in Adult Moyamoya -- 18 Japanese Experience: Long-term Results after Cerebral Revascularization -- 19 Moyamoya Angiopathy in Korea -- Index

Moyamoya Disease: Diagnosis and Treatment covers the key clinical disciplines involved in managing patients with moyamoya disease, including diagnostic work up, imaging, neurocognitive evaluation, and surgical options for pediatric and adult patients. The text and accompanying videos provide neurosurgeons and other health professionals treating Moyamoya patients with all the information they need to make the right diagnostic and surgical decisions.

Key Features:

• Includes online access to videos and animations, narrated by Dr. Wanebo, demonstrating surgical techniques discussed in the book
• Written and edited by world-renowned experts at the Barrow Neurological Institute and other centers of excellence focused on Moyamoya
• Covers these dynamic topics in Moyamoya: cortical microvasculature, genetics, neuropsychiatric evaluation, and endovascular therapy
• Contains detailed illustrations and descriptions of technical aspects of treatment such as the direct and indirect methods of revascularization

All neurosurgeons and neurologists caring for Moyamoya patients will find this book to be an important reference that they will consult often in their daily practice.

__Moyamoya Disease: Diagnosis and Treatment__ covers the key clinical disciplines involved in managing patients with moyamoya disease, including diagnostic work up, imaging, neurocognitive evaluation, and surgical options for pediatric and adult patients. The text and accompanying videos provide neurosurgeons and other health professionals treating Moyamoya patients with all the information they need to make the right diagnostic and surgical decisions. * Includes online access to videos and animations, narrated by Dr. Wanebo, demonstrating surgical techniques discussed in the book * Written and edited by world-renowned experts at the Barrow Neurological Institute and other centers of excellence focused on Moyamoya * Covers these dynamic topics in Moyamoya: cortical microvasculature, genetics, neuropsychiatric evaluation, and endovascular therapy * Contains detailed illustrations and descriptions of technical aspects of treatment such as the direct and indirect methods of revascularization "This multi-authored, well-organized monograph is a must read for any physician involved in the care of patients with Mmoyamoya disease. It is moderately short and very easy to read but still provides a state-of-the-art review of the disease with updated aspects, especially in its etiology and pathogenesis, epidemiology, and long-term results"--Provided by publisher Cover Title page Contents Foreword Preface Acknowledgments Contributors I Diagnosing Moyamoya Angiopathy: Definition, Classifications, Symptomatology II Treatment Options: Medical, Endovascular, Perioperative, and Surgical Management III Regional Long-term Experience with Cerebral Revascularization Index