EFFECT OF DIRECT SURGICAL REVASCULARIZATION ON CEREBRAL HEMODYNAMICS AND STROKE DEVELOPMENT IN PATIENTS WITH MOYAMOYA...

Decreased cerebral blood flow (CBF) leads to impaired cerebral hemodynamics, which causes an increased risk of stroke. Revascularization has been shown to improve CBF in patients with moyamoya disease. The study is devoted to the retrospective study of clinical features and cerebral hemodynamic characteristics of 17 patients with moyamoya disease before, during and after surgical treatment using extracranial-intracranial (EC-IC) bypass by STA-MCA type. Patients underwent superficial temporal artery-middle cerebral artery bypass surgeries. All patients were carried out by DSA, MSCT-angiography, and MSCT-perfusion imagine (MSCTPI) before and 6 months after surgery. The hemodynamic parameters during MSCTPI, changes in cerebral vascular pattern, and clinical outcomes were evaluated. Cerebral blood flow and mean transit time (MTT) were measured using MSCT-perfusion imaging to identify areas of hypoperfusion. Intraoperative indocyanine green (ICG) analysis was performed to assess local cerebral hemodynamics before and after the creation of the STA-MCA bypass. Results showed that hemodynamics improved significantly on the surgery side after revascularization. After STA-MCA bypass CBF increased and MTT reduced by almost 2 times compared to the level before the bypass. The modified Rankin Scale scores demonstrated an improvement in the neurological status of patients following surgical revascularization. Thus, STA-MCA-type surgical revascularization significantly improved cerebral perfusion parameters and reduced the risk of stroke in patients with moyamoya disease. MSCTPI can serve as an effective and noninvasive method for monitoring cerebral hemodynamics in these patients. Intraoperative ICG angiography is a safe method that can display hemodynamic characteristics in the surgical area.