Authors: Jin Hoon Park Sun Ju Chung Chong Sik Lee Sang Ryong Jeon
Publish Date: 2011/04/09
Volume: 153, Issue: 8, Pages: 1573-1578
Abstract
A total of 171 DBS procedures were performed on 110 patients 58 females 52 males by the same neurosurgeon at a single center between May 2005 and May 2010 We used two microelectrode insertion methods multiple microelectrode insertion MMI and circumferential paired microelectrode insertion CPMI We analyzed the correlation between bleeding rates and gender age hypertension target location simultaneous bilateral procedure and electrode insertion methodOf the 171 DBS procedures 138 were on 85 patients with Parkinson’s disease 16 were in 15 patients with essential tremor and 17 were on ten patients with dystonia There were nine postoperative hemorrhagic events 526 of which three were symptomatic 175 and one permanent neurological deficit event 058 Compared with the bleeding rate in the MMI method 9/106 85 there was no instance of bleeding with the CPMI method 0/65 0 p = 004 In other factors the correlation with hemorrhage was not found
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