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Neurosurgery Effective For Parkinson’s Patients Not Responding To Drug Therapy |
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| Brain surgery for
patients with advanced Parkinson's disease is an
effective treatment for those who have an unsatisfactory
response to pharmacological treatments, say researchers
in The Lancet. Dr. Rob de Bie
and colleagues from the Academic Medical Centre,
Amsterdam, the Netherlands, report the findings of a randomized multicentre trial to test whether Parkinson's
patients would benefit from an operation called Unilateral
pallidotomy (destruction of one side of the globus
pallidus, an area of the brain affected in Parkinson's
diseases). This method of treatment may be the most important advance in Parkinson's disease since the introduction of levodopa treatment in 1967. The researchers say, "Unilateral pallidotomy is an effective treatment in patients with advanced Parkinson's diseases, who have an unsatisfactory response to pharmacological treatment"
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