Clinical outcomes following awake and asleep deep brain stimulation for Parkinson disease.
CONCLUSIONS In PD patients, bilateral GPi and STN DBS using the asleep method resulted in motor, quality-of-life, and medication reduction outcomes that were comparable to those of the awake method.
PMID: 29547091 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Journal of Neurosurgery - Category: Neurosurgery Authors: Chen T, Mirzadeh Z, Chapple KM, Lambert M, Shill HA, Moguel-Cobos G, Tröster AI, Dhall R, Ponce FA Tags: J Neurosurg Source Type: research
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