Landmark TrialRCTRandomized Controlled Trial
A Randomized Trial of Deep-Brain Stimulation for Parkinson's Disease
New England Journal of Medicine2006IF: 25.4
Günther Deuschl, Carmen Schade‐Brittinger, Paul Krack, Jens Volkmann, H. Schäfer, Kai Bötzel, Christine Daniels, Angela Deutschländer, Ulrich Dillmann, Wilhelm Eisner, Doreen Gruber, Wolfgang Hamel, Jan Herzog, Rüdiger Hilker, Stephan Klebe, Manja Kloß, Jan Koy, Martín Krause, Andreas Kupsch, Delia Lorenz, Stefan Lorenzl, H. Maximilian Mehdorn, J. R. Moringlane, Wolfgang H. Oertel, Marcus O. Pinsker, Heinz Reichmann, Alexander Reuß, Gerd‐Helge Schneider, Alfons Schnitzler, U. Steude, Volker Sturm, Lars Timmermann, Volker Tronnier, Thomas Trottenberg, Lars Wojtecki, Elisabeth Wolf, Werner Poewe, Jürgen Voges
Abstract
In this six-month study of patients under 75 years of age with severe motor complications of Parkinson's disease, neurostimulation of the subthalamic nucleus was more effective than medical management alone. (ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT00196911 [ClinicalTrials.gov].).