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Transcranial Magnetic Resonance Guided Focused Ultrasound treatment of essential tremor, neuropathic pain and Parkinson's disease |
Corneliuson O, Björk-Eriksson T, Daxberg E-L, Fhager A, Persson J, Pettersson J, Sjögren P, Skagervik I, Strandell A |
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Record Status This is a bibliographic record of a published health technology assessment. No evaluation of the quality of this assessment has been made for the HTA database. Citation Corneliuson O, Björk-Eriksson T, Daxberg E-L, Fhager A, Persson J, Pettersson J, Sjögren P, Skagervik I, Strandell A. Transcranial Magnetic Resonance Guided Focused Ultrasound treatment of essential tremor, neuropathic pain and Parkinson's disease. Gothenburg: The Regional Health Technology Assessment Centre (HTA-centrum). HTA-rapport 2015:82. 2015 Authors' conclusions In patients with essential tremor, the effect of tcMRgFUS on symptom score for tremor was immediate. The effect on symptom score, ADL and HRQoL was large and remained when measured up to one year after the procedure. Contrary, the natural course implies progressive detoriation. In patients with neuropathic pain or Parkinson's disease, pain and symptom scores were respectively improved in very small case series. The certainty of evidence was very low. Although the short term results are promising, the long term results including complications remain to be evaluated. The available case series can be considered as feasibility studies of a newly developed technology. The method has the advantage of being non-invasive. Severe complications are uncommon. The equipment is very expensive and requires large investments. Indexing Status Subject indexing assigned by CRD MeSH Essential Tremor; Humans; Hypothermia; Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; Neuralgia; Parkinson Disease Language Published English Country of organisation Sweden English summary An English language summary is available. Address for correspondence The Regional Health Technology Assessment Centre, Region Vastra Gotaland, HTA-centrum, Roda Straket 8, Sahlgrenska Universitetssjukhuset, 413 45 GOTHENBORG, Sweden Email: hta-centrum@vgregion.se AccessionNumber 32016000602 Date abstract record published 29/03/2016 |
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