Multimodal evaluation of the cerebrovascular reserve in Neurofibromatosis type 1 patients with Moyamoya syndrome.
Alessandra D'AmicoLorenzo UggaSirio CocozzaSara Maria Delle Acque GiorgioDomenico CicalaClaudia SantoroDaniela MelisGiuseppe CinalliArturo BrunettiSabina PappatàPublished in: Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology (2020)
Although SPECT imaging still represents the gold standard for CBF assessment, our results suggest that data obtained using DSC perfusion technique, and in particular MTT maps, might be a very useful and noninvasive tool for evaluating hemodynamic status in MMS-NF1 patients.