P Blomstedt

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Country: Sweden

Publications

  1. ncbi Intracerebral infections as a complication of deep brain stimulation
    Patric Blomstedt
    Section of Neurosurgery, Department of Pharmacology and Clinical Neuroscience, Umea University, Umea, Sweden
    Stereotact Funct Neurosurg 90:92-6. 2012
  2. ncbi A family with a hereditary form of torsion dystonia from northern Sweden treated with bilateral pallidal deep brain stimulation
    Patric Blomstedt
    Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital of Northern Sweden, Umea, Sweden
    Mov Disord 24:2415-9. 2009
  3. ncbi The posterior subthalamic area in the treatment of movement disorders: past, present, and future
    Patric Blomstedt
    Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital of Northern Sweden, Umea, Sweden
    Neurosurgery 64:1029-38; discussion 1038-42. 2009
  4. ncbi Deep brain stimulation of the posterior subthalamic area in the treatment of tremor
    P Blomstedt
    Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital of Northern Sweden, Umea, Sweden
    Acta Neurochir (Wien) 151:31-6. 2009
  5. ncbi Deep brain stimulation in the posterior subthalamic area in the treatment of essential tremor
    Patric Blomstedt
    Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital of Northern Sweden, Umea, Sweden
    Mov Disord 25:1350-6. 2010
  6. ncbi Deep brain stimulation in the treatment of depression
    P Blomstedt
    Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital of Umea, Sweden
    Acta Psychiatr Scand 123:4-11. 2011
  7. ncbi Pallidal deep brain stimulation in the treatment of Meige syndrome
    P Blomstedt
    Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital of Northern Sweden, Umea, Sweden
    Acta Neurol Scand 118:198-202. 2008
  8. ncbi Thalamic deep brain stimulation in the treatment of essential tremor: a long-term follow-up
    P Blomstedt
    Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital of Umea, Umea, Sweden
    Br J Neurosurg 21:504-9. 2007
  9. ncbi Influence of age, gender and severity of tremor on outcome after thalamic and subthalamic DBS for essential tremor
    Patric Blomstedt
    Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Section of Neurosurgery, Umea University, Sweden
    Parkinsonism Relat Disord 17:617-20. 2011
  10. ncbi Hardware-related complications of deep brain stimulation: a ten year experience
    P Blomstedt
    Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital, Umea, Sweden
    Acta Neurochir (Wien) 147:1061-4; discussion 1064. 2005

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  1. ncbi Intracerebral infections as a complication of deep brain stimulation
    Patric Blomstedt
    Section of Neurosurgery, Department of Pharmacology and Clinical Neuroscience, Umea University, Umea, Sweden
    Stereotact Funct Neurosurg 90:92-6. 2012
    ..A review of 20 publications of 3,818 patients focusing on complications of DBS did not reveal one single case. For that reason, we decided to present our own experience of 4 patients with this complication...
  2. ncbi A family with a hereditary form of torsion dystonia from northern Sweden treated with bilateral pallidal deep brain stimulation
    Patric Blomstedt
    Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital of Northern Sweden, Umea, Sweden
    Mov Disord 24:2415-9. 2009
    ..The present study confirms the effectiveness of pallidal DBS in a new family with hereditary primary segmental and generalized dystonia...
  3. ncbi The posterior subthalamic area in the treatment of movement disorders: past, present, and future
    Patric Blomstedt
    Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital of Northern Sweden, Umea, Sweden
    Neurosurgery 64:1029-38; discussion 1038-42. 2009
    ..We reviewed the literature to investigate the development of surgery in the posterior subthalamic area from the lesional era to the present...
  4. ncbi Deep brain stimulation of the posterior subthalamic area in the treatment of tremor
    P Blomstedt
    Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital of Northern Sweden, Umea, Sweden
    Acta Neurochir (Wien) 151:31-6. 2009
    ..Even though the clinical series is small, the reported benefits prompted us to explore DBS in this area in the treatment of tremor...
  5. ncbi Deep brain stimulation in the posterior subthalamic area in the treatment of essential tremor
    Patric Blomstedt
    Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital of Northern Sweden, Umea, Sweden
    Mov Disord 25:1350-6. 2010
    ..Activities of daily living were improved by 66%. No severe complication occurred. Eight patients presented a postoperative mild dysphasia that regressed within days to weeks. DBS in the PSA resulted in a marked reduction of tremor...
  6. ncbi Deep brain stimulation in the treatment of depression
    P Blomstedt
    Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital of Umea, Sweden
    Acta Psychiatr Scand 123:4-11. 2011
    ..To present the technique of deep brain stimulation (DBS) and to evaluate the studies conducted on DBS in the treatment of therapy-refractory major depressive disorder (MDD)...
  7. ncbi Pallidal deep brain stimulation in the treatment of Meige syndrome
    P Blomstedt
    Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital of Northern Sweden, Umea, Sweden
    Acta Neurol Scand 118:198-202. 2008
    ..The experience is however limited concerning focal dystonias and to date only a few cases of pallidal DBS in the treatment of Meige syndrome have been published...
  8. ncbi Thalamic deep brain stimulation in the treatment of essential tremor: a long-term follow-up
    P Blomstedt
    Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital of Umea, Umea, Sweden
    Br J Neurosurg 21:504-9. 2007
    ..7 to 4.1 and 8.2, respectively. Vim-DBS is an efficient treatment for ET, also after many years of treatment. There is, however, a decreasing effect over time, most noticeable concerning tremor of action...
  9. ncbi Influence of age, gender and severity of tremor on outcome after thalamic and subthalamic DBS for essential tremor
    Patric Blomstedt
    Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Section of Neurosurgery, Umea University, Sweden
    Parkinsonism Relat Disord 17:617-20. 2011
    ..However, patients with a more severe tremor at baseline had a higher degree of residual tremor on stimulation. Tremor in the treated hand and hand function were improved with 70% in the Vim group and 89% in the PSA group...
  10. ncbi Hardware-related complications of deep brain stimulation: a ten year experience
    P Blomstedt
    Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital, Umea, Sweden
    Acta Neurochir (Wien) 147:1061-4; discussion 1064. 2005
    ..To analyse the occurrence of hardware-related complications in patients with deep brain stimulation (DBS), over a long period of time...
  11. ncbi Pallidotomy versus pallidal stimulation
    Patric Blomstedt
    Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital of Umea, SE 90185 Umeå, Sweden
    Parkinsonism Relat Disord 12:296-301. 2006
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  12. ncbi Are complications less common in deep brain stimulation than in ablative procedures for movement disorders?
    Patric Blomstedt
    Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital of Northern Sweden, Umea, Sweden
    Stereotact Funct Neurosurg 84:72-81. 2006
    ..Some of the side effects following lesioning are transient and most but not all DBS side effects are reversible. In the Vim DBS is safer than lesioning, while in the pallidum, unilateral lesions are well tolerated...
  13. ncbi Deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus versus the zona incerta in the treatment of essential tremor
    Patric Blomstedt
    Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Section of Neurosurgery, Umea University, Umea, Sweden
    Acta Neurochir (Wien) 153:2329-35. 2011
    ..The objective of the current study was to evaluate the effect of STN DBS in ET and to compare this to cZi DBS...
  14. ncbi Dittmar and the history of stereotaxy; or rats, rabbits, and references
    Patric Blomstedt
    Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital, Umea, Sweden
    Neurosurgery 60:198-201; discussion 201-2. 2007
    ..quot; In our opinion, it can most properly be classified as a supportive arm...
  15. ncbi Acute severe depression induced by intraoperative stimulation of the substantia nigra: a case report
    Patric Blomstedt
    Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital of Northern Sweden, Umea, Sweden
    Parkinsonism Relat Disord 14:253-6. 2008
    ..Repeated blinded stimulations resulted in the same response. Immediate postoperative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealed that the lowest contact of the right electrode was located in the substantia nigra...
  16. ncbi Deep brain stimulation for movement disorders before DBS for movement disorders
    Patric Blomstedt
    Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital of Umea, Sweden
    Parkinsonism Relat Disord 16:429-33. 2010
    ..It is to the credit of the Grenoble Group to have reinvented, modernised and expanded modern DBS in surgical treatment of movement disorders...
  17. ncbi Long-term effect of deep brain stimulation for essential tremor on activities of daily living and health-related quality of life
    G M Hariz
    Department of Community Medicine and Rehabilitation, Section of Occupational Therapy, Umea University, Sweden
    Acta Neurol Scand 118:387-94. 2008
    ..To report long-term effects of thalamic deep brain stimulation (DBS) on activities of daily living (ADL) and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in patients with essential tremor (ET)...
  18. ncbi Complications and side effects of deep brain stimulation in the posterior subthalamic area
    A Fytagoridis
    Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital of Northern Sweden, Umea, Sweden anders fytagoridis neuro umu se
    Stereotact Funct Neurosurg 88:88-93. 2010
    ..In order to evaluate the safety of the procedure, we analyzed our initial 40 patients for complications and side effects...
  19. ncbi Sympathicotomy affects cutaneous blood flow, temperature, and sympathicus-mediated reflexes
    L O D Koskinen
    Department of Pharmacology and Clinical Neuroscience, Division of Neurosurgery, University of Umea, Sweden
    Acta Neurol Scand 118:402-6. 2008
    ..To study the sympathetically mediated effects of transthoracic endoscopic sympathicotomy (TES) in the treatment of severe primary palmar hyperhidrosis...
  20. ncbi Intracerebral microvascular measurements during deep brain stimulation implantation using laser Doppler perfusion monitoring
    Karin Wårdell
    Department of Biomedical Engineering, Linkoping University, Linkoping, Sweden
    Stereotact Funct Neurosurg 85:279-86. 2007
    ..005) and the perfusion significantly lower (p < 0.005) in positions identified as white matter in the respective MRI batch. The measurements imply that LDPM has the potential to be used as an intracerebral guidance tool...
  21. ncbi Dopaminergic therapy promotes lateralized motor activity in the subthalamic area in Parkinson's disease
    Alexandros G Androulidakis
    Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience and Movement Disorders, Institute of Neurology, London, UK
    Brain 130:457-68. 2007
    ..These findings suggest that dopaminergic therapy restores a more physiological pattern of reactivity in the STN of patients with Parkinson's disease...
  22. ncbi Diffuse reflectance spectroscopy measurements for tissue-type discrimination during deep brain stimulation
    Johan Antonsson
    Department of Biomedical Engineering, Linkoping University, Sweden
    J Neural Eng 5:185-90. 2008
    ..The results indicate that diffuse reflectance spectroscopy has a potential to be developed to a suitable complement to other intracerebral guidance methods...
  23. ncbi Deep-brain stimulation in Parkinson's disease
    Patric Blomstedt
    N Engl J Med 346:452-3. 2002