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Behavioral and Motor Improvement After Deep Brain Stimulation of the Globus Pallidus Externus in a Case of Tourette’s Syndrome by Fabián Piedimonte; Juan Carlos M. Andreani; Leandro Piedimonte; Pablo Graff; Valeria Bacaro; Federico Micheli; Osvaldo Vilela Filho is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
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The objective of our paper is to show the partial decrease of therapeutic effect with battery exhaustion in a previously successfully treated patient with refractory Tourette's syndrome (TS). ## Materials and Methods: We present a 47-year-old patient diagnosed with TS based on the TS Study Group Criteria and Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition. Surgery was considered based on refractoriness to conservative management. Presurgical evaluation included magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), positron emission tomography scan, and neuropsychologic, neurologic, and psychiatric tests utilizing Yale Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale, Yale Global Tics Severity Scale, Hamilton Depression Rating Scale, Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale, Global Assessment of Functioning Scale, and Mini-mental State Examination. Target coordinates were obtained from inversion recovery MRI. Quadripolar deep brain stimulation (DBS) electrodes were implanted bilaterally in the globus pallidus externus (GPe) and connected to the pulse generator in the same procedure. To determine the clinical response to DBS, the scores of the scales obtained preoperatively were compared with those obtained
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- Author
- Fabián Piedimonte; Juan Carlos M. Andreani; Leandro Piedimonte; Pablo Graff; Valeria Bacaro; Federico Micheli; Osvaldo Vilela Filho
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)