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Fibroblast growth factors 1 and 2 in cerebrospinal fluid are associated with HIV disease, methamphetamine use, and neurocognitive functioning. [PDF]

, 2016
BackgroundHuman immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and methamphetamine use commonly affect neurocognitive (NC) functioning. We evaluated the relationships between NC functioning and two fibroblast growth factors (FGFs) in volunteers who differed in HIV ...
Bharti, Ajay R, Cherner, Mariana, Ellis, Ronald J, Everall, Ian P, Grant, Igor, Heaton, Robert K, Letendre, Scott L, Masliah, Eliezer, Potter, Michael, Rosario, Debra, Woods, Steven Paul   +10 more
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Moyamoya Periventricular Choroidal Collateral Registry―A Multicenter Cohort Study of Moyamoya Disease with Choroidal Anastomosis: Study Protocol

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica
Recent cohort studies on hemorrhagic and asymptomatic moyamoya disease have revealed that choroidal anastomosis, a type of fragile periventricular collateral pathway (periventricular anastomosis) typical of the disease, is an independent predictor of ...
Takeshi FUNAKI, Susumu MIYAMOTO, The Moyamoya P-ChoC Registry Group   +2 more
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Moyamoya-like cerebrovascular disease in a child with a novel mutation in myosin heavy chain 11 [PDF]

, 2017
Heterozygous mutations in the MYH11 gene affecting the C-terminal coiled-coil region of the smooth muscle myosin heavy chain, a contractile protein of smooth muscle cells (SMC), have been described to cause thoracic aortic aneurysm or aortic dissection ...
Brogan, P, Eleftheriou, D, Ganesan, V, Hong, Y, Keylock, A, Mulhern, C, Omoyinmi, E, Roebuck, D, Saunders, D   +8 more
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Updates in the management of moyamoya disease

Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery, 2021
Moyamoya is a rare, steno-occlusive cerebrovascular disorder that often presents as ischemic or hemorrhagic intracerebral events. This review provides an overview of various surgical revascularization techniques used in treating Moyamoya disease ...
Angie Zhang, Nolan Brown, Barry Cheaney, II, Jessica K. Campos, R. Chase Ransom, Frank P.K. Hsu   +5 more
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Moyamoya disease: a summary [PDF]

Neurosurgical Focus, 2009
Moyamoya, meaning a “hazy puff of smoke” in Japanese, is a chronic, occlusive cerebrovascular disease involving bilateral stenosis or occlusion of the terminal portion of the internal carotid arteries (ICAs) and/or the proximal portions of the anterior cerebral arteries and middle cerebral arteries (MCAs).
Gordon M. Burke, Bernard R. Bendok, Allan M. Burke, H. Hunt Batjer, Michael C. Hurley, Arun K. Sherma   +5 more
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Early manifestation of Moyamoya syndrome in a 2-year-old child with Down syndrome

Radiology Case Reports, 2021
Moyamoya is a rare occlusive cerebrovascular disease characterized by progressive stenosis of the terminal portion of the internal carotid artery and the circle of Willis.
Abasin Tajmalzai, MD, Asadullah Shirzai, MD, Din Mohammad Najah, MD   +2 more
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Arteriopathy diagnosis in childhood arterial ischemic stroke: results of the vascular effects of infection in pediatric stroke study. [PDF]

, 2014
Background and purposeAlthough arteriopathies are the most common cause of childhood arterial ischemic stroke, and the strongest predictor of recurrent stroke, they are difficult to diagnose.
A. Abdalla, A. James Barkovich, A. Kirton, A. Yeh, A.K. Chan, B.H. Bjornson, C. Amlie-Lefond, C.K. Fox, Carlos Leiva-Salinas, G.S. Kovacevic, Gabrielle A. deVeber, Guangming Zhu, Heather J. Fullerton, J. Condie, J. Elbers, J.L. Carpenter, J.Y. Yager, Katherine Sear, L. Titomanlio, L.C. Jordan, L.P. Zou, M.A. Tan, M.F. Rafay, M.I. Hernandez Chavez, M.J. Lim, M.J. Rivkin, M.T. Mackay, Max Wintermark, Michael M. Dowling, Mitchell S.V. Elkind, N. Dlamini, Nancy K. Hills, Neil R. Friedman, O. Farooq, P. Humphreys, P. Pergami, Qinghua Hou, R. Forsyth, R. Kneen, Rebecca N. Ichord, S. Pavlakis, S.L. Benedict, S.M. Sultan, Timothy J. Bernard, V.C. Wong, W.D. Lo   +45 more
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Pediatric Moyamoya disease [PDF]

American Journal of Case Reports, 2013
Moyamoya disease (MMD) is a progressive cerebrovascular occlusive disease of the bilateral internal carotid arteries that leads to a compensatory abnormal vascular network at the base of the brain. Its average annual incidence 0.54 per 100,000 population but it is the most common pediatric cerebrovascular disease in East Asia. The reported incidence in
Iqbal Allarakhia, Mohamed Nagiub
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Brain infarction following elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy in a patient with sickle cell disease and previously undetected Moyamoya syndrome

Journal of Pediatric Surgery Case Reports, 2018
Objective: We report a 7 year-old boy, known case of sickle cell disease, who underwent laparoscopic cholecystectomy for gallstones. He sustained brain insult due to undiagnosed MoyaMoya syndrome.
Jamal Al Hudhaif, Adel Ahmed Al Fayez, Azzah Saleh Alzahrani, Mohammed Al Rajhi   +3 more
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The roles of endoglin gene in cerebrovascular diseases. [PDF]

, 2017
Endoglin (ENG, also known as CD105) is a transforming growth factor β (TGFβ) associated receptor and is required for both vasculogenesis and angiogenesis.
Ma, Li, Su, Hua, Zhang, Rui, Zhu, Wan
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