Nearly 70 per cent of patients who received the treatment showed improvements in symptoms.
Carlson is seen here just before she went into the MRI machine for the focused ultrasound procedure. — Photos: University of Maryland School of Medicine/TNSSince they couldn’t find a suit in the first store, they stopped by a second.
But in June , Carlson became one of the first Parkinson’s patients to undergo a minimally-invasive procedure at the University of Maryland Medical Center that uses focused ultrasound to relieve the disease’s symptoms and the side effects of the medicine used to treat it. Participants will be followed by the researchers for five years to determine how long the benefits last and how it affects the progression of their disease.
And it does so without anaesthesia, incisions or an in-patient hospital stay, differentiating it from deep brain stimulation, another treatment for Parkinson’s in which electrodes are surgically implanted in a patient’s brain. And since the procedure takes place in an MRI scanner, doctors can watch the treatment progress in real time on a temperature map, helping them precisely target the correct area and apply the right amount of heat to treat it.
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