The movements become stiff and slow. Then associated disorders of balance, posture hunched gait awkward and resting tremor. They are motor symptoms with which you live, when you suffer from Parkinson’s disease. A disorder of the central nervous system, for which today, technological progress, expands the possibilities of the patients to approach the technique of neurostimulation deep brain (DBS, deep brain stimulation, used for years to combat the problems motor of the disease), without having give more consideration diagnostic MRI.
The new feature is the device for Medtronic DBS, now approved by the European Union and also available in Italy, with the extension of the indication for MRI of the entire body, both for new patients, both for the majority of over 130 thousand persons who, it is estimated, have already been implanted in Europe, of which 2,500 in Italy. These are systems which had already been authorized as compatible with MRI, but only for the brain and in limited situations. “We are talking about a mature technique – explains Gianni Pezzoli, director of the Parkinson Milan – and at the same time extraordinary, practiced for years in many of the most recognized centers of our country, addressed to a 5 percent of the population of patients , in which the drug therapy is no longer able to control the symptoms, or causes serious side effects. ” In Europe Parkinson’s disease relates to a percentage of the population comprised between 0.13 ?? 0.15 percent and among these, patients, about 50 percent suffers from an advanced stage of the disease. “Even if you do not expect an exponential increase in Parkinson’s patients, largely through the therapeutic approaches that today may appeal the elderly patient (antiplatelet therapy, anticoagulant, antihypertensive or antidislipidemiche), which improve the prognosis of neurodegenerative diseases who undergo a competition Also of vascular origin, in years to come – adds Pezzoli – we will have to deal with the effects of this disease.
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