It's great to hear from Shari & Nancy.
Whenever I see the patients, I feel that the God heals the people and doctors...are mere assistant to help the people to go into their presumed way. This thought is not fully from me, and one of my respecting doctor told to me once when I was in Paris studying interventional neuroradiology, two years ago.
I am doing, retrospective analysis of the MM patient with my colleague in one of largest hospital in Korea. About 400 patients are enrolled from 1994 to 2004. I have lots of questions about the MM. Those questions let me try to study about MM.
We are also planning to do some prospective clinical trials upon our future coming retrospective results.
1) Moyamoya needs immediate surgery? : needs more clinically oriented angiographic classifications, needs more reliable perfusion studies tested among various modalities
2) Is it really fatal if left untreated? : should be investigated the cause, the natural history of the MM
3) Which MM patient will have bled/or ischemic? : these 2 outstanding clinical features of the MM needs further interpretations....
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It's not easy way to going through with these thoughts. However, I am very happy to hear from the people of the board and also good to communicate with your thoughts....
Most medical teachings come out from the patients....
Jin-Il