The Hospital of Santa Creu i Sant Pau, in Barcelona, has performed deep brain stimulation surgery on a patient suffering from huntingtons Disease, an incurable neurodegenerative disease that includes involuntary movements of the whole body, cognitive disorders Y psychiatric disorders. The pioneering intervention is the first carried out by Sant Pau. Worldwide, hardly any a hundred of them.
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The video that accompanies this news shows the before and after of the operation, which served the patient to alleviate the aggressive involuntary movements caused by Huntington’s. EL PERIÓDICO entered the operating room during the surgery and spoke weeks later with the specialists at Hospital de Sant Pau to follow up on the case. In a multimedia report, the newspaper narrates the ins and outs of the intervention and explains what the patient’s evolution has been [pulsa aquí para leer el reportaje multimedia]
The surgery to which Huntington’s patient underwent consists of placing brain stimulation electrodes deep in very specific regions of the brain. The purpose is to regulate neuromodulate neural activity impaired that gives rise to motor symptoms. “It is not a recommended therapy, but it works only in few cases. This is a highly selected patient,” say the neurosurgeons.