Focused ultrasound
MR-guided focused ultrasound thalamotomy / pallidotomy / subthalamotomy for tremor and dyskinesia.
State of the art
No update yet for Focused ultrasound. An update is a standalone state-of-the-art for the topic — what someone with Parkinson's needs to know about where this approach stands today.
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Una tecnología para tratar el párkinson elimina el dolor a Inma, paciente con la "enfermedad del suicidio": "Es un cambio descomunal" - La Opinión de Málaga
A Spanish case report describes HIFU — the same focused-ultrasound technology already used for tremor-dominant Parkinson's — being applied to severe neuropathic pain (trigeminal neuralgia) at Hospital Can Ruti in Badalona, reportedly the first centre in Catalonia to do so. A single patient experienced immediate pain relief after all other treatments had failed, suggesting specialist HIFU centres are beginning to extend the technique beyond tremor to refractory pain conditions.