Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson's Disease: the Globus Pallidus Internus Versus Subthalamic Nucleus

Exclusion Criteria

• •Age below 18 years
• •Impossibility to consent to participate in the study.
• •Patients during treatment with anti-coagulants or anti-platelet agents.
• •Patients with anatomical abnormalities that preclude access to the implantation of electrodes (eg cranial tumors or intracranial or cysts).
• •Patients with uncontrolled infection or other medical conditions pre-existing non-controlled (eg decompensated diabetes, hypertension, heart disease or symptomatic air).
• •History of primary or secondary myocardial ischemia, congestive heart failure, cardiac arrhythmia or bundle branch block refractory to treatment.
• •Concomitant treatment with other experimental drugs.
• •Pregnant or lactating.