SKIMS Performs First STA-MCA Bypass For Moya-Moya Disease

Srinagar: Department of Neurosurgery at SKIMS, Soura, has successfully performed the first direct vascular bypass surgery (STA-MCA) in Jammu and Kashmir for a patient suffering from Moya-Moya disease — a rare and progressive brain condition.

- Observer News Service

The complex six-hour procedure involved connecting a healthy blood vessel from outside the brain (superficial temporal artery) directly to a diseased vessel inside the brain (middle cerebral artery), allowing for immediate improvement in brain blood flow. The patient, an adult who had suffered mult