Practice variability in the perioperative management of pediatric moyamoya disease in North America

Revascularization surgery decreases the long-term risk of stroke in children with moyamoya, but ischemic complications occur after 10-20% of moyamoya surgeries, with stroke in 5-10%.1-5 Though single center institutional practices for perioperative moyamoya care have been published,6 evidence-based approaches to safe perioperative management of children with moyamoya are limited due to disease rarity. We aimed to understand the degree of practice variability in perioperative pediatric moyamoya care and to identify areas of equipoise in order to target future research and consensus-building efforts.
Source: Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases - Category: Neurology Authors: Tags: Short Communication Source Type: research