Parul Sevashram Hospital

In a rather remarkable medical event, the neurosurgery group at Parul Sevashram Hospital has successfully treated a 10-year-old girl, from Bharuch, diagnosed with Moya Moya disease. This is a rare and progressively worsening cerebrovascular disorder that can cause repeated strokes, and severe neural complications if it's not treated. The young patient had been experiencing these stroke-like episodes frequently, with sudden weakness, numbness, headaches, and difficulty in speech, commonly associated with Moya Moya disease. The disorder makes critical arteries at the brain base get narrower, so blood flow gets restricted, and the body compensates by building these fragile collateral blood vessels that look like a “puff of smoke”,also called Moya Moya in Japanese on diagnostic scans, and that’s where the name comes from. After a detailed evaluation and advanced neuroimaging, the patient was placed under the care of the hospital’s specialized neurosciences team , led by Dr. Iype Cheria...