Moyamoya Disease in a Kuwaiti child

ABSTRACT

To present the first case of Moyamoya disease in a child in Kuwait. Neurology Department, Mubarak Al-Kabeer Hospital, Kuwait. A four-year-old Kuwaiti girl is described with recurrent bilateral hemispheric strokes associated with non-prolonged epileptic seizures. Magnetic resonance angiography findings were typical of Moyamoya disease. Medical conditions that could be associated with Moyamoya or recurrent stroke were excluded. She had successful revascularization procedure, encephalomyosynangiosis, after which there were no recurrent strokes over nine months of follow-up