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Filter by:The purpose of this study is to detect the change of m6A RNA modification from peripheral blood of patients with moyamoya disease, and to assess the relationship between clinical characteristics.
Moyamoya disease (MMD) is a nonatherosclerotic cerebrovascular abnormality, characterized by a progressive stenosis or occlusion of the intracranial internal carotid arteries (ICAs) and their proximal branches, with subsequent formation of collateral vessels ("puff of smoke"). In some cases, the posterior circulation can also be involved. MMD has been discovered around the world, but Asians carry the most possibility to develop this disease. Current treatment designed to prevent strokes by improving blood flow to the affected cerebral hemisphere including medical therapy and surgery. In particular, surgery included two general methods: direct and indirect revascularization. Compared with direct bypass, indirect procedures are more technically accessible and may reduce the possibility of complications, such as hyperperfusion. In addition, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with derived parameters have shown great potential in evaluating perfusion in patients, and could possibly predict surgical outcome. However, there is still lack of evidence of the predictive value of MRI in evaluating clinical and angiography improvement in patients with MMD.
Moyamoya Disease(MMD), also known as spontaneous basilar artery occlusion, is characterized by the gradual thickening of arterial intima at the distal carotid artery and the proximal portion of anterior/middle cerebral artery, the gradual stenosis or occlusion of arterial lumen, and the compensatory expansion of basilar cerebral perforating arteries. Cerebral infarction and cerebral hemorrhage are common clinical symptoms of MMD with high morbidity of disability. For ischemic moyamoya disease, intracranial/extracranial revascularization is the preferred treatment. However, for patients with hemorrhagic moyamoya disease, there is controversy about whether to have surgical treatment, the timing and the method of surgical treatment, and the effect of surgical treatment to prevent rebleeding due to the lack of large sample, multi-center, prospective randomized studies. At present, the studies on the effect of revascularization and conservative treatment on hemorrhagic moyamoya disease are retrospective case analyses without randomized control. The sample size of these studies are small, and the conclusions obtained are inconsistent. Due to the differences in the epidemiology and episode type of moyamoya disease in different countries, there is no prospective, randomized controlled study of blood type moyamoya disease in China to confirm the efficacy of revascularization and lack of uniform norms and standards.
Moyamoya disease is a chronic cerebrovascular diseaseļ¼The typical pathological manifestations are the stenosis or occlusion of the distal internal carotid artery and/or middle cerebral artery, and the proximal anterior cerebral artery. Meanwhile, the abnormal vascular net, which is the smokey vessel, occurs at the bottom of the brain. Currently the pathogenesis of this disease is unknown. Limited studies have reported the expression of endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) in moyamoya disease, but the results were inconsistent. Some investigators believe that the number of EPCs in peripheral blood of patients with moyamoya disease is increased, while others believe that the number of EPCs in peripheral blood of moyamoya patients is reduced. Therefore, the investigators need to find a more accurate detection method to confirm the growth of EPC in patients with moyamoya disease. At the same time, whether there is endothelial injury in patients with smoke disease, and the expression of endothelial cells (CEC) in patients with smoke disease, there is no research on this aspect at home and abroad.
EEG in moyamoya disease in children preoperatively
The investigators conducted a prospective multi-center study assessing the effect of direct bypass and indrect bypass in treatment of hemorrhagic moyamoya disease.
Adult patients with moyamoya disease (MMD) are reported to suffer from considerable impairment of executive function/attention. Although reduced cerebrovascular reserve (CVR) in frontal areas has been detected by perfusion MRI and then confirmed to be associated with executive dysfunction in adult MMD, the structural and functional changes is still unclear with progression of executive dysfunction. Furthermore, it is very important to study the association between the neurocognitive and radiological improvement after surgical revascularization, so as to help detecting cerebral regions which are involved in executive deterioration or improvement after surgery. Then the investigators can determine whether these regions can be used as indicators to decide rational therapeutic schedule and timing of adult MMD with executive dysfunction. Thus the aim of this study is to primarily find out the neuropsychological and radiological correlates in adult MMD, and then to quantitatively evaluate the effectiveness of surgical revascularization in prevention of executive dysfunction in adult MMD.
The aim of this study is to investigate the proportion of patients with moyamoya disease among the patients who were diagnosed as having intracranial atherosclerotic stroke. To do this, biomarkers (gene and imaging) for moyamoya disease are tested and follow up angiography are performed during follow up (in selected patients).