Multiple intracranial aneurysms and moyamoya disease associated with microcephalic osteodysplastic primordial dwarfism type II: surgical considerations
Document Type
Article
Abstract
Microcephalic osteodysplastic primordial dwarfism type II (MOPD II) is a rare genetic syndrome characterized by extremely small stature and microcephaly, and is associated in 25% of patients with intracranial aneurysms and moyamoya disease. Although aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage and stroke are leading causes of morbidity and death in these patients, MOPD II is rarely examined in the neurosurgical literature. The authors report their experience with 3 patients who presented with MOPD II, which includes a patient with 8 aneurysms (the most aneurysms reported in the literature), and the first report of a patient with both moyamoya disease and multiple aneurysms. The poor natural history of these lesions indicates aggressive microsurgical and/or endovascular therapy. Microsurgery, whether for aneurysm clip placement or extracranial-intracranial bypass, is challenging due to tight surgical corridors and diminutive arteries in these patients, but is technically feasible and strongly indicated when multiple aneurysms must be treated or cerebral revascularization is needed.
Medical Subject Headings
Abnormalities, Multiple; Adolescent; Anastomosis, Surgical; Brain (pathology); Cerebral Angiography; Dwarfism (complications, pathology, surgery); Female; Humans; Infant; Intracranial Aneurysm (complications, pathology, surgery); Magnetic Resonance Angiography; Male; Microcephaly (complications, pathology, surgery); Moyamoya Disease (complications, pathology, surgery); Neurosurgical Procedures; Subarachnoid Hemorrhage (surgery); Tomography, X-Ray Computed; Treatment Outcome
Publication Date
11-3-2009
Publication Title
Journal of neurosurgery. Pediatrics
E-ISSN
1933-0715
Volume
4
Issue
5
First Page
439
Last Page
44
PubMed ID
19877776
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.3171/2009.6.PEDS08137
Recommended Citation
Waldron, James S.; Hetts, Steven W.; Armstrong-Wells, Jennifer; Dowd, Christopher F.; Fullerton, Heather J.; Gupta, Nalin; and Lawton, Michael T., "Multiple intracranial aneurysms and moyamoya disease associated with microcephalic osteodysplastic primordial dwarfism type II: surgical considerations" (2009). Neurosurgery. 986.
https://scholar.barrowneuro.org/neurosurgery/986