Salvage STA-MCA bypass surgery in an adult moyamoya patient after failed indirect revascularization surgery.
A 39-year-old female moyamoya disease patient underwent a salvage direct bypass surgery involving anastomosis of the superficial temporal artery or STA and middle cerebral artery or MCA. This report describes a rare case of moyamoya disease that was revascularized after the previous indirect bypass surgery failed to restore collateral blood flow.
a Department of Neurosurgery , Inje University Haeundae Paik Hospital , Busan city , Republic of Korea.
Minwook
M
Yoo
a Department of Neurosurgery , Inje University Haeundae Paik Hospital , Busan city , Republic of Korea.
Sung-Chul
SC
Jin
b Gamma Knife Center, Inje University Haeundae Paik Hospital , Busan city , Republic of Korea.
Seong-Jin
SJ
Jin
a Department of Neurosurgery , Inje University Haeundae Paik Hospital , Busan city , Republic of Korea.
Byeong-Sam
BS
Choi
D000328:Adult; D000714:Anastomosis, Surgical / Q000379:methods*; D002548:Cerebral Revascularization; D002560:Cerebrovascular Circulation; D003097:Collateral Circulation; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D020768:Middle Cerebral Artery / Q000601:surgery*; D009072:Moyamoya Disease / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D019635:Neurosurgical Procedures / Q000379:methods*; D010291:Paresis / Q000209:etiology; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000601:surgery; D016879:Salvage Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D013699:Temporal Arteries / Q000601:surgery*; D017211:Treatment Failure; D016896:Treatment Outcome