Intermittent Hemiplegia in a Boy with Primary Moyamoya Disease: A Case Report from Iran

BIDAKI, Reza and ZAREPUR, Ehsan (2017) Intermittent Hemiplegia in a Boy with Primary Moyamoya Disease: A Case Report from Iran. Iranian Journal of Child Neurology, 11 (2). pp. 65-68.

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Abstract

Moyamoya is a rare chronic progressive occlusive cerebrovascular disease. Its manifestation varies from stroke, progressive learning impairment and transient ischemic attack to headache and seizure. There is no accepted medical treatment and surgery usually, is needed. We report here a case of 8 yr old boy referred to psychiatrist outpatient. An eight yr old boy with intermittent hemiplegia was brought to Imam Ali Clinic, Yazd, Iran in 2015 because his headache and medical problem began from 6 yr old. Stress and excitement exacerbated his condition. His first attack was at the age of 6 yr old. During attack, he had incontinence, severe headache, alogia, pallor, claudication and left hemiplegia (Left lower limb). Magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) was done and our diagnosis was moyamoya disease. Moyamoya is a mysterious disease and psychiatrists should consider it in differential diagnosis of alogia and plegia. Acute management of this disease is mainly symptomatic. Nowadays, surgery is a good choice and early diagnosis of this disease can change our patient’s life.

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Date Deposited: 22 Mar 2023 09:31
Last Modified: 12 Aug 2024 12:05
URI: http://research.asianarticleeprint.com/id/eprint/405

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