Overview
- The Secretaría de Marina said the Centro Médico Naval recently completed two successful procedures to treat Parkinson's disease.
- The surgeries used the Leksell Vantage stereotactic system, which the institution reports was employed in Mexico for the first time.
- Neurosurgeons implanted electrodes that deliver targeted electrical pulses to motor areas of the brain to reduce tremor and rigidity and lessen reliance on medication.
- Patients were selected after multidisciplinary evaluation for advanced Parkinson's following years of symptoms without sufficient benefit from other therapies.
- Semar describes the operations as long, resource-intensive efforts involving more than a dozen specialists, with greater mobility and daily independence anticipated.