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For More Info......please visit DJ's website! (: He has information on MoyaMoya, STA-MCA Bypass, and the MoyaMoya surgery plus some really cool links related to MoyaMoya :)My Basic InfoName: Breeana Jaehee Johng :)Birthday: February 8, 1993 County: LA County State: California My Surgery InfoNeurosurgeon: Dr. Gary K. SteinburgLocation: Lucille Packard Children's Hospital (LPCH) of Stanford Medical Clinic Dates: April 2005, December 2006 Types: Neurovascular MCA-STA* Direct Bypass & Indirect Pre- & Post-Op ProceduresCerebral Angiogram: This procedure was probably the one I hated most. For Pre-Op patients, the waiting room where you change and get your IV and anesthesia will be the same waiting room for the surgery if the sur gery will be needed. First steps to angiogram is getting the IV. Once that is done, you change into the hospital gown, and then you lie down on a rolling bed until it is time for the procedure. Once the doctor injects the anesthesia, it is pretty much different for everyone. You'll start feeling sleepy right away, and what happens next is all a matter of how much you remember; the doctors start wheeling you into the procedure room, then they hoist you up onto the procedure bed. A breathing mask is then placed over your mouth, and that is all I ever remembered up to. The procedure itself only takes about ten to fifteen minutes, but once you are asleep, they put an IV into your groin (normally the right one) and they feed it up. So once you wake up from the anesthesia, you cannot move your leg for about four to six hours, depended on the size of the catheter they put through the groin. Staying overnight at the hospital is not necessary, and out of my 4-5 angiograms that I've had, I've only had to stay overnight once, due to anesthesia problems. So you'll probably be out on the same night.Spect Scan: Not exactly one of my favorites, but still better than the angiogram. The spect scan has two parts: spect with diamox and spect without diamox. The spect with diamox takes a little longer than without. An IV is inserted and you lie down in a dark room for a while. After about fifteen minutes a doctor comes in to inject something. Thirty mintues later, the doctor enters again to inject the diamox (assuming this is the spect without diamox). Twenty minutes later you leave the room and do a scan that takes about 25 minutes. As with every scan, you must be still during the whole 25 minutes. The spect without diamox is the same as with, with the exception of the injection of diamox. My suggestion is to sleep late the night before, and sleep in the dark room and during the scan :) MRI-MRA: This is in my opinion the easiest of the IV scans. You lie down on a bed and they push you into a tube-like structure so that most of you upper body is inside. Then you have to stay still for intervals of about 10 seconds, 5 minutes, etc. until they pull you out to insert an IV and inject a dye. Then there is only 2/3 more intervals and then you are done! It only takes about 45 minutes to an hour. Also, if you have an mp3 player, bring it; sometimes they can hook it up and you can listen to your music :) Again, the easiest thing to do is sleep. Doppler: The Doppler is by far the easiest "procedure". All you do is lie down on a bed while Joann places this cold thing first on one side of your head, then the other, both eyelids, and under the chin, then voila! all done :) |