Long-term outcomes of pallidal deep brain stimulation in X-linked dystonia parkinsonism (XDP): Up to 84 months follow-up and review of literature.

Introduction: X-linked dystonia-parkinsonism (XDP/DYT3/Lubag) patients had improved dystonia and parkinsonism with bilateral pallidal deep brain stimulation (DBS) in the literature.

Method: We reviewed eleven XDP patients who underwent bilateral pallidal DBS from October 2009 to September 2018. The Burke-Fahn-Marsden Dystonia Rating Scale (BFMDRS) and Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS)-III scores were reviewed from baseline up to the longest follow-up together with the demographic and clinical data.

Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson Disease in the Philippines: Outcomes of the Philippine Movement Disorder Surgery Center.

Objective: Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is an established treatment modality for Parkinson disease (PD). The first DBS for PD in the Philippines was performed at the Philippine Movement Disorder Surgery Center in 2006. There are no Philippine data on DBS for PD.

The promise of deep brain stimulation in X-linked dystonia parkinsonism.

X-Linked dystonia parkinsonism (XDP) is a rapidly progressive and disabling neurodegenerative disease affecting mainly male Filipinos with origins from Panay Island. We reviewed all the past neurosurgical ablative procedures done for XDP patients listed in the Philippine XDP registry. From 1960 to 1982, six patients had undergone bilateral chemopallidotomies or bilateral thalomotomies staged over time.

Gamma knife radiosurgery and brain metastases: local control, survival, and quality of life.

Object: The purpose of this paper was to describe the clinical outcome in patients with brain metastases who underwent gamma knife radiosurgery (GKS).

Methods: The authors retrospectively reviewed the clinical courses of 54 patients with brain metastases who underwent 62 GKS procedures. This series covered a 43-month period.