Risk of Infection after Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery with Externalization and Local-Field Potential Recordings: Twelve-Year Experience from a Single Institution

Conclusion: This study demonstrates that DBS is a surgical procedure with a low risk of infection in a large patient cohort. Importantly, it shows that LFP recordings do not have a significant effect on the incidence of infections in patients with externalization. With a representative cohort of more than 380 patients participating in LFP-recordings, this underlines LFP as a safe method in research and supports further use of this method, for example, for the development of adaptive stimulation protocols.Stereotact Funct Neurosurg
Source: Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery - Category: Neurosurgery Source Type: research