Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery-All Inclusive Medical Packages In India
Added: (Mon Oct 05 2009)
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Deep Brain Stimulation In India
Deep Brain Stimulation uses a surgically implanted, battery-operated medical device called a neurostimulator—similar to a heart pacemaker and approximately the size of a stopwatch—to deliver electrical...
The electrode is connected via a wire running beneath the skin to a stimulator and battery pack in the patient's chest. It is reversible—just turns off the current—and allows for precise calibrated symptom control. Before the procedure, a neurosurgeon uses magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)...
Deep brain stimulation may be used in addition to therapy with levodopa or other drugs when drugs alone do not control symptoms adequately...
There are now three possible target sites in the brain that may be selected for placement of stimulating electrodes: the globus pallidus (GPi), the subthalamic nucleus (STN)...