Moyamoya Disease: Cardiologist's Perspectives.
10.12997/jla.2016.5.2.115
- Author:
Duk Kyung KIM
1
;
Sung A CHANG
;
Taek Kyu PARK
Author Information
1. Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Heart Vascular Stroke Institute, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. dukyung.kim@gmail.com
- Publication Type:Review
- Keywords:
Moyamoya disease;
RNF213 R4810K;
Extracranial vasculopathy;
Renal artery;
Coronary artery;
Pulmonary artery
- MeSH:
Asian Continental Ancestry Group;
Cerebral Angiography;
Cerebral Arteries;
Child;
China;
Circle of Willis;
Constriction, Pathologic;
Coronary Vessels;
Fingers;
Humans;
Hypertension, Pulmonary;
Hypertension, Renovascular;
Japan;
Korea;
Moyamoya Disease*;
Myocardial Ischemia;
Penetrance;
Pulmonary Artery;
Renal Artery;
Stroke
- From:Journal of Lipid and Atherosclerosis
2016;5(2):115-120
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
Moyamoya disease (MMD) is a steno-occlusive disease of the cerebral artery around the circle of Willis. It was first described in 1957 in Japan and named because the characteristic appearance of the basal collaterals in cerebral angiography looks like “a puff of smoke” (moyamoya in Japanese). MMD is one of the major causes of stroke in children worldwide, however most common in Korea, Japan and China. In 2011 the ring finger protein 213 gene (RNF213) was identified as a susceptibility gene for MMD. The RNF213 R4810K variant is an Asian founder mutation common to above nations with carrier rates of 0.5-2% of the general population but a 1/150 penetrance of clinical MMD. MMD patients in Korea and Japan harbors RNF213 R4810K variant in 70-90%. In MMD arterial stenosis was found to occur systematically, not only in the intracranial cerebral arteries but also in renal, coronary, pulmonary arteries, suggesting that MMD is a systemic vasculopathy. These extracranial vasculopathy (ECV) is rare but important as a cause of renovascular hypertension, ischemic heart disease, and pulmonary hypertension especially in children with MMD or family members of MMD. Clinical features of ECV will be reviewed in this article.
