Darren B. Orbach explains how the disease progresses as well as the role angiography plays in detecting the progression of moyamoya in a short video. In 2019, author and artist Sarah Lippett published a graphic novel about her decade-long struggle to get a diagnosis and treatment for moyamoya disease, called "A Puff of Smoke" (published with Jonathan Cape). The book was praised in the newspaper "The Guardian" as a "wonderfully drawn memoir of a serious childhood illness." It was one of the paper's "graphic novels of the year" in 2019 and "The Observer" newspaper's "graphic novel of the month" in November 2019.