Moyamoya Disease in an Adult Patient with Multiple Infarction: A Case Report
Bunyamin Tosunoglu
*
Ankara Education and Reserach Hospital, Turkey.
Seyfi Emre Aksoy
Ankara Education and Reserach Hospital, Turkey.
Levent Ertuğrul Inan
Ankara Education and Reserach Hospital, Turkey.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
Moyamoya disease is a cerebral circulation anomaly of unknown etiology, which is characterized by bilateral and chronic progressive stenosis of the supraclinoid internal carotid artery and the main branches of the Willis polygon. In our case, the patient who did not have any stroke until the age of 54, presented with multiple infarcts. The diagnosis of the patient was made by angiography.
Keywords: Angiography, moyamoya, stroke, stenosis