Lim, lh., noma fitzrol, d., rajapathy, sk., tan, yc., sanihah, ah., kandasamy, r., wan hassan, wmn., badrisyah, i., abdul rahman izaini, g., zamzuri, i., tharakan, j., nunta-aree, s., jafri malin, a.Deep brain stimulation (dbs) for movement disorders: an experience in hospital universiti sains malaysia (husm) involving 12 patients.Malaysian journal of medical sciences.2017;24(2):87-93.Doi: 10.21315/mjms2017.24.2.11.Summary: deep brain stimulation (dbs) was first introduced in 1987 to the developed world.As a developing country malaysia begun its movement disorder program by doing ablation therapy using the radionics system.Hospital universiti sains malaysia a rural based teaching hospital had to take into consideration both health economics and outcomes in the area that it was providing neurosurgical care for when it initiated its deep brain stimulation program.Most of the patients were from the low to medium social economic groups and could not afford payment for a dbs implant.We concentrated our dbs services to parkinson's disease, tourette's syndrome and dystonia patients who had exhausted medical therapy.The case series of these patients and their follow-up are presented in this brief communication.Reported events: 1.Case 12: a (b)(6) male with deep brain stimulation (dbs) of the medial thalamus for tourette¿s syndrome experienced an allergic reaction to the device shortly after implant so the device was removed.It was not possible to ascertain specific device information from the article or to match the reported event with any previously reported event.
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