Victor S Hvingelby, Rafael B Carra, Miriam H Terkelsen, Clement Hamani, Tamine Capato, Zuzana Košutzká, Joachim K Krauss, Elena Moro, Nicola Pavese, Rubens G Cury
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Abstract
Background: Parkinson's Disease (PD) is a progressive neurological disorder that results in potentially debilitating mobility deficits. Recently, spinal cord stimulation (SCS) has been proposed as a novel therapy for PD gait disorders. The highest levels of evidence remain limited for SCS.
Objectives: In this systematic review and narrative synthesis, the literature was searched using combinations of key phrases indicating spinal cord stimulation and PD.
Methods: We included pre-clinical studies and all published clinical trials, case reports, conference abstracts as well as protocols for ongoing clinical trials. Additionally, we included trials of SCS applied to atypical parkinsonism.
Results: A total of 45 human studies and trials met the inclusion criteria. Based on the narrative synthesis, a number of knowledge gaps and future avenues of potential research were identified. This review demonstrated that evidence for SCS is currently not sufficient to recommend it as an evidence-based therapy for PD related gait disorders. There remain challenges and significant barriers to widespread implementation, including issues regarding patient selection, effective outcome selection, stimulation location and mode, and in programming parameter optimization. Results of early randomized controlled trials are currently pending. SCS is prone to placebo, lessebo and nocebo as well as blinding effects which may impact interpretation of outcomes, particularly when studies are underpowered.
Conclusion: Therapies such as SCS may build on current evidence and be shown to improve specific gait features in PD. Early negative trials should be interpreted with caution, as more evidence will be required to develop effective methodologies in order to drive clinical outcomes.
期刊介绍:
Movement Disorders Clinical Practice- is an online-only journal committed to publishing high quality peer reviewed articles related to clinical aspects of movement disorders which broadly include phenomenology (interesting case/case series/rarities), investigative (for e.g- genetics, imaging), translational (phenotype-genotype or other) and treatment aspects (clinical guidelines, diagnostic and treatment algorithms)