When battery exhaustion lets the lame walk: a case report on the importance of long-term stimulator monitoring in deep brain stimulation

BACKGROUND: Deep brain stimulation is increasingly used in the treatment of advanced Parkinson’s disease. While its short-term effectiveness is well documented, there are only few reports on long-term outcomes, and the need to repeatedly reprogram the stimulator is seldom reported. CASE PRESENTATION...

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Autores principales: Sommer, Martin, Stiksrud, Elisabeth Mirjam, von Eckardstein, Kajetan, Rohde, Veit, Paulus, Walter
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4506586/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26187628
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12883-015-0365-6
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author Sommer, Martin
Stiksrud, Elisabeth Mirjam
von Eckardstein, Kajetan
Rohde, Veit
Paulus, Walter
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description BACKGROUND: Deep brain stimulation is increasingly used in the treatment of advanced Parkinson’s disease. While its short-term effectiveness is well documented, there are only few reports on long-term outcomes, and the need to repeatedly reprogram the stimulator is seldom reported. CASE PRESENTATION: We present a 74-year-old man with gait impairment, which had been mistaken for worsening of the disease and only remitted when the stimulator battery was exhausted indicating that the stimulator itself had been the cause. CONCLUSION: This case highlights the need to repeatedly monitor not only battery capacity, but also stimulator-related side-effects for an extended period after implantation and, if necessary, to refer to centres capable of systematically reprogramming the device.
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spelling pubmed-45065862015-07-19 When battery exhaustion lets the lame walk: a case report on the importance of long-term stimulator monitoring in deep brain stimulation Sommer, Martin Stiksrud, Elisabeth Mirjam von Eckardstein, Kajetan Rohde, Veit Paulus, Walter BMC Neurol Case Report BACKGROUND: Deep brain stimulation is increasingly used in the treatment of advanced Parkinson’s disease. While its short-term effectiveness is well documented, there are only few reports on long-term outcomes, and the need to repeatedly reprogram the stimulator is seldom reported. CASE PRESENTATION: We present a 74-year-old man with gait impairment, which had been mistaken for worsening of the disease and only remitted when the stimulator battery was exhausted indicating that the stimulator itself had been the cause. CONCLUSION: This case highlights the need to repeatedly monitor not only battery capacity, but also stimulator-related side-effects for an extended period after implantation and, if necessary, to refer to centres capable of systematically reprogramming the device. BioMed Central 2015-07-19 /pmc/articles/PMC4506586/ /pubmed/26187628 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12883-015-0365-6 Text en © Sommer et al. 2015 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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von Eckardstein, Kajetan
Rohde, Veit
Paulus, Walter
When battery exhaustion lets the lame walk: a case report on the importance of long-term stimulator monitoring in deep brain stimulation
title When battery exhaustion lets the lame walk: a case report on the importance of long-term stimulator monitoring in deep brain stimulation
title_full When battery exhaustion lets the lame walk: a case report on the importance of long-term stimulator monitoring in deep brain stimulation
title_fullStr When battery exhaustion lets the lame walk: a case report on the importance of long-term stimulator monitoring in deep brain stimulation
title_full_unstemmed When battery exhaustion lets the lame walk: a case report on the importance of long-term stimulator monitoring in deep brain stimulation
title_short When battery exhaustion lets the lame walk: a case report on the importance of long-term stimulator monitoring in deep brain stimulation
title_sort when battery exhaustion lets the lame walk: a case report on the importance of long-term stimulator monitoring in deep brain stimulation
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4506586/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26187628
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12883-015-0365-6
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