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Thirty days complication rate following surgery performed for deep-brain-stimulation

  1. Jürgen Voges MD1,*,
  2. Rüdiger Hilker MD1,
  3. Kai Bötzel MD2,
  4. Karl L. Kiening MD3,
  5. Manja Kloss MD3,
  6. Andreas Kupsch MD4,
  7. Alfons Schnitzler MD5,
  8. Gerd-Helge Schneider MD4,
  9. Ulrich Steude MD2,
  10. Günther Deuschl MD6,
  11. Markus O. Pinsker MP6

Article first published online: 21 MAY 2007

DOI: 10.1002/mds.21481

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Movement Disorders

Movement Disorders

Volume 22, Issue 10, pages 1486–1489, 30 July 2007

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Voges, J., Hilker, R., Bötzel, K., Kiening, K. L., Kloss, M., Kupsch, A., Schnitzler, A., Schneider, G.-H., Steude, U., Deuschl, G. and Pinsker, M. O. (2007), Thirty days complication rate following surgery performed for deep-brain-stimulation. Movement Disorders, 22: 1486–1489. doi: 10.1002/mds.21481

Author Information

  1. 1

    Departments of Neurology and Stereotactic and Functional Neurology, Albertus-Magnus University, Köln, Germany

  2. 2

    Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Ludwig-Maximilian-University, München, Germany

  3. 3

    Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Ruprecht-Karls University Heidelberg, Germany

  4. 4

    Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Charite Hospital, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany

  5. 5

    Department of Neurology, Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany

  6. 6

    Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Christian Albrechts University Kiel, Germany

*Department of Stereotaxy and Functional Neurosurgery, Albert-Magnus University Köln, Kerpenerstr. 62, 50924 Köln, Germany

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 23 JUL 2007
  2. Article first published online: 21 MAY 2007
  3. Manuscript Accepted: 1 MAR 2007
  4. Manuscript Revised: 12 JAN 2007
  5. Manuscript Received: 26 SEP 2006

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Keywords:

  • stereotaxy;
  • deep-brain-stimulation;
  • complications;
  • mortality;
  • morbidity

Abstract

Serious adverse events (SAEs) during the first 30 postoperative days after stereotactic surgery for Deep-Brain-Stimulation performed in 1,183 patients were retrospectively collected from five German stereotactic centers. The mortality rate was 0.4% and causes for death were pneumonia, pulmonary embolism, hepatopathy, and a case of complicated multiple sclerosis. The permanent surgical morbidity rate was 1%. The most frequently observed SAEs were intracranial hemorrhage (2.2%) and pneumonia (0.6%). Skin infection occurred in 5 of 1,183 patients (0.4%). Surgical complications caused secondary AEs (e.g. pneumonia) preferentially in older patients and in patients treated for Parkinson's disease (PD). Complication rates did not differ among the five centers. © 2007 Movement Disorder Society

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