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>From: WE MOVE <[log in to unmask]> >To: <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: DBS Surgery Complications; Subthalamotomy (AAN 2001) >Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 12:56:04 -0500 > >E-MOVE reports from the 53rd Annual Meeting of the American Academy of >Neurology in Philadelphia May 5-11, 2001. Poster and Platform session >numbers refer to abstracts published in Neurology 2001;56 (Supplement 3). > >1. S19.004 Surgical and device-related events with deep brain stimulation >KE Lyons, WE Koller, SB Wilkinson, R Pahwa > >Surgical and device-related complications are very common following deep >brain stimulation surgery, according to this report. Chart review was >conducted on 206 consecutive patients (209 with essential tremor) >receiving 275 DBS surgeries to the VIM (169 procedures), GPi (23 >procedures), or STN (83 procedures). Surgical complications included: >--asymptomatic intracranial bleed (10% of procedures) >--symptomatic intracranial bleed (2%) >--seizures (3%) >--headache (25%) >--infection (6%). > >Device-related complications included: >--lead replacements (9%) >--lead repositionings (8%) >--extension wire replacements (6%) >--implantable pulse generator replacements (17%), approximately half of >which were due to malfunction. > > >2. P04.075 Bilateral subthalamotomy in Parkinson's disease >L Alvarez, R Macias, MC Rodriguez-Oroz, et al. > >Eighteen PD patients received bilateral subthalamotomy with the aid of >microelectrode recording. Improvement in UPDRS off motor score versus >baseline was 62% at six months, and 58% at 16.7 months. At six months, >levodopa dose was reduced by 60%, dyskinesias by 14%, and off-period >dystonia by 47%. Adverse events included severe generalized chorea, >dysarthria, and instability in 3 patients. Chorea resolved 1-6 months >post-surgery, and dysarthria and instability after 6-12 months. >http://www.wemove.org janet paterson: an akinetic rigid subtype, albeit perky, parky . pd: 54/41/37 cd: 54/44/43 tel: 613 256 8340 email: [log in to unmask] . a new voice: the nnnewsletter: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/janet313/ . a new voice: the wwweb site: http://www.geocities.com/janet313/ . a new voice: the jjjournal: http://www.geocities.com/janet313/ . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn