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It was reported that the deep brain stimulation (dbs) patient experienced a possible wound infection.The patient underwent a revision procedure where the wound was sutured over.The patient was being treated for a urinary tract infection (uti) at the time.The patient was discharged home.The patient then returned to the hospital a week later with altered mental status.Later in the week the patent went into afib and began to seize.The patient underwent an explant procedure where the full dbs system was removed, and a culture was taken and everything was negative; no signs of infection were found.The patient did have pneumonia, and other cardiac morbidities and was found to have had a stroke.The physician assessed that the patient has multiple comorbidities and is systemically ill.He assessed that the uti, altered mental status, pneumonia, sepsis, afib and cardiac issues were not related to the device or device stimulation.The physician assessed that the patients uncontrolled afib lead to the stroke, the stroke (rolandic fissure stroke) was in a region of the brain that is known to cause seizures, the patient remains in the hospital, and tremors have returned as the dbs system was removed.The patient was administered antibiotics prophylactically.The explanted devices were retained by the medical facility and were not returned.
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