Deep brain stimulation for tremor resulting from acquired brain injury

作者：Sitsapesan H A^*; Holland P; Oliphant Z; De Pennington N; Brittain J S; Jenkinson N; Joint C; Aziz T Z; Green A L

来源：Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, 2014, 85(7): 811-815.

DOI：10.1136/jnnp-2013-305340

Objectives To evaluate the efficacy of deep brain stimulation (DBS) in the treatment of tremor resulting from acquired brain injury (ABI).
Methods A series of eight consecutive patients with post-ABI tremor were treated with DBS of the ventrooralis posterior (VOP)/zona incerta (ZI) region, and subsequently underwent blinded assessments using Bain's tremor severity scale.
Results VOP/ZI DBS produced a mean reduction in tremor severity of 80.75% based on Bain's tremor severity scale, with significant reductions in all five component tremor subscores: rest, postural, kinetic, proximal and distal. No adverse neurological complications were reported, although one patient experienced exacerbation of pre-existing gait ataxia.
Conclusion VOP/ZI stimulation is demonstrated here to be an effective and safe approach for the treatment of post-ABI tremor in the largest series published at the time of writing.

• 出版日期2014-7