Dazhong.com·Poster News Correspondent Sun Xinai Correspondent Gao Jie Dezhou reported
Recently, the neurosurgery team of Dezhou Hospital of Qilu Hospital of Shandong University successfully performed deep brain stimulation (DBS) on a patient with severe Parkinson's disease. It is the first of its kind in Texas. After intraoperative electrophysiological testing, the patient's limb tremor, stiffness and other symptoms were significantly improved, and he is currently recovering in the hospital.
Having been ill for many years, hope is rekindled
Aunt Wang, 63, has been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease for more than ten years. In her early years, she went to various major hospitals but could not find a good treatment, so she started taking long-term medication. In the first few years of taking the medicine, the condition was well controlled. But in March 2022, Aunt Wang's condition became serious. Her limbs kept shaking, her limbs were so stiff that it was difficult to walk, and she was unable to take care of herself. The dosage of medicine was increased, but the progression of the disease was not slowed down. "You have to take medicine every two hours, otherwise you will keep shaking, unable to do anything, and even sleep. It's so tortured!" Recalling her condition, Aunt Wang said with emotion.
Suffering from illness, Aunt Wang, who had always been cheerful, became depressed, and her family lost the relaxation and joy of the past. "My mother used to be an enthusiastic old lady. She would always run ahead when anything happened in the community. As her illness worsened, her personality was also affected. She would stay in the house all day long and didn't want to see anyone. , her temper became irritable, and I understood that she felt uncomfortable. Seeing my mother depressed all day long made me feel very distressed," said Aunt Wang's daughter.
After several inquiries, Aunt Wang’s family learned that the Neurosurgery Department of Dezhou Hospital of Qilu Hospital of Shandong University is a provincial key specialty construction unit and can perform deep brain stimulation surgery for patients with Parkinson’s disease. This rekindled hope for Aunt Wang’s family. In order to solve the pain that has been bothering them for many years, they came to Dezhou Hospital of Qilu Hospital of Shandong University and expressed their desire for surgery. With great trust and hope, Aunt Wang was hospitalized a week in advance to prepare for the operation.
Before the operation, Director of Neurology Qu Lixin, Deputy Director Zhang Zhenling, Deputy Chief Physician Wei Jie, Director of Neurosurgery Sun Dezhou, Deputy Chief Physician Sun Xiaopeng, and Attending Physician Zhao Wanyong jointly conducted comprehensive examinations and evaluations related to deep brain electrode implantation surgery for the patient. After confirming that she met the indications for deep brain stimulation (DBS) surgery and had no contraindications, a careful surgical plan was formulated for Aunt Wang.
Humanized service to help patients recover
With the active cooperation of the Radiology Department and Anesthesiology Department , one week after admission, Aunt Wang finally ushered in her surgery day. The operation lasted more than three hours. The neurosurgery team accurately implanted the electrodes into the nuclei of only a few millimeters in Aunt Wang's brain. The intraoperative electrophysiological test results were good. After the operation, considering the particularity of the patient's disease, Dezhou Hospital of Qilu Hospital of Shandong University specially applied for a double escort for him. In order to ensure the patient's sleep quality, no other patients were arranged in the three-person ward where the patient was located without increasing costs. With superb surgery and meticulous care, Aunt Wang recovered quickly. Not only was she able to dress and eat by herself, but she could also go to the nurse's station for a walk. Aunt Wang's joy was beyond words. The family members were also relieved, and the initial gloom was gone.
Seeing the doctor, Aunt Wang's daughter said gratefully: "Thank you so much! Our hospital is so user-friendly. Not only was the operation successful, the experts were amiable and the medical staff took good care of her. My mother is recovering very well now and is still alive." You’re kidding us.”
Electrode implantation gives patients a new lease of life
Deep brain stimulation (DBS) surgery, also known as brain pacemaker implantation, is an important method for neurosurgery to treat Parkinson's disease, dystonia , essential tremor and other movement disorders. Special intracranial electrodes are precisely buried in the deep nuclei of the brain to suppress pathological electrical activity and control clinical symptoms symptomatically. Compared with traditional nerve nuclei destruction surgery, it has the advantages of being safe, effective, minimally invasive, controllable, and reversible, and has been widely used in clinical practice.
"As a degenerative chronic disease of the nervous system, Parkinson's disease cannot be cured and will become more and more severe. As the dosage of drugs continues to increase, in a sense, intolerable side effects and drug complications will inevitably occur. Symptoms. The efficacy of the drug is obviously weakened in patients at this stage, and the onset time of the drug is gradually longer and the duration of the drug effect is shortened. Therefore, DBS surgery has become the second "spring" for patients at this stage. It can very well improve symptoms such as tremor , stiffness, and bradykinesia in Parkinson's patients, thus effectively improving the patient's quality of life. In addition, DBS also has a good effect on essential tremor, Major syndrome , dystonia, epilepsy, etc.
"Before the operation, I was always calculating the time to take medicine. Once the effect of the medicine wore off, I started to shake violently, which made my days feel like years. Now on the fourth day after the operation, I only took medicine twice a day, and all the symptoms have been relieved. "Master, you really gave me a second life," Aunt Wang said with satisfaction.
