Journal of neurosurgery
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Journal of neurosurgery · Dec 2022
Review Meta AnalysisIdiopathic Parkinson's disease and chronic pain in the era of deep brain stimulation: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Pain is the most common nonmotor symptom of Parkinson's disease (PD) and is often undertreated. Deep brain stimulation (DBS) effectively mitigates the motor symptoms of this multisystem neurodegenerative disease; however, its therapeutic effect on nonmotor symptoms, especially pain, remains inconclusive. While there is a critical need to help this large PD patient population, guidelines for managing this significant disease burden are absent. Herein, the authors systematically reviewed the literature and conducted a meta-analysis to study the influence of traditional (subthalamic nucleus [STN] and globus pallidus internus [GPi]) DBS on chronic pain in patients with PD. ⋯ The results indicated that traditional STN and GPi DBS can have a favorable impact on pain control and improve pain scores by 40% from baseline in PD patients experiencing chronic pain. Further trials are needed to identify the subtype of PD patients whose pain benefits from DBS and to identify the mechanisms by which DBS improves pain in PD patients.
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Journal of neurosurgery · Dec 2022
Meta AnalysisOptimal targeting of the anterior nucleus of the thalamus for epilepsy: a meta-analysis.
Deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the anterior nucleus of the thalamus (ANT) has been shown to be an effective therapeutic option for select patients with limbic epilepsy. However, the optimal target and electrode position for this indication remains undefined. Therefore, the objective of this systematic review and meta-analysis is to quantify the association between active contact location and outcomes across all published series of ANT DBS. ⋯ Accurate targeting of the ANT is crucial to successful DBS outcomes in epilepsy. These findings suggest that stimulation within the ANT subregions adjacent to the MTT improves outcomes.
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Journal of neurosurgery · Dec 2022
Multicenter StudyLongitudinal neuropsychological assessment after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage and its relationship with delayed cerebral ischemia: a prospective Swiss multicenter study.
While prior retrospective studies have suggested that delayed cerebral ischemia (DCI) is a predictor of neuropsychological deficits after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH), all studies to date have shown a high risk of bias. This study was designed to determine the impact of DCI on the longitudinal neuropsychological outcome after aSAH, and importantly, it includes a baseline examination after aSAH but before DCI onset to reduce the risk of bias. ⋯ Aneurysmal SAH patients experiencing DCI have worse neuropsychological function before and until 3 months after the DCI period. DCI itself is responsible for a temporary and clinically meaningful decline in neuropsychological function, but its effect on the MoCA score could not be measured at the time of the 3-month follow-up in patients with low-grade aSAH with little or no impairment of consciousness. Whether these findings can be extrapolated to patients with high-grade aSAH remains unclear. Clinical trial registration no.: NCT03032471 (ClinicalTrials.gov).
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Journal of neurosurgery · Dec 2022
Multicenter StudyIschemic complications in the neurosurgical and endovascular treatments of craniocervical junction arteriovenous fistulas: a multicenter study.
A recent comparative analysis between neurosurgical and endovascular treatments for craniocervical junction (CCJ) arteriovenous fistulas (AVFs) revealed better treatment outcomes in the neurosurgery group than in the endovascular group. This finding was attributed to the higher than expected rate of ischemic complications in the endovascular group than in the neurosurgery group (26% vs 7.7%, p = 0.037). The aim of the present study was to describe ischemic complications associated with treatments for CCJ AVFs. ⋯ Among ischemic complications associated with treatments for CCJ AVFs, spinal infarctions were the most common and were mostly attributed to endovascular procedures for CCJ AVFs fed by spinal arteries. These results support the use of neurosurgery as the first-line treatment for CCJ AVFs.