FDA Adverse Event Injury Summary report: N

UNKNOWN DEEP BRAIN STIMULATOR

MDR report key: 2143015 · Received June 23, 2011

Report

Report Number
3007566237-2011-04689
Event Type
Injury
Date Received
June 23, 2011
Date of Event
April 13, 2010
Report Date
August 6, 2010
Manufacturer
MEDTRONIC NEUROMODULATION
Product Code
MHY
PMA / PMN Number
P960009
Adverse Event
Yes
Report Source
Manufacturer report
Reporter Location
TW
Reporter Occupation
PHYSICIAN

Narratives

Additional Manufacturer Narrative · 1

(B)(4). IT WAS NOT POSSIBLE TO ASCERTAIN SPECIFIC DEVICE INFORMATION FROM THE ARTICLE OR TO MATCH THE EVENTS REPORTED WITH PREVIOUSLY REPORTED EVENTS. AT THIS TIME NO ADDITIONAL INFORMATION WAS AVAILABLE, ADDITIONAL INFORMATION HAS BEEN REQUESTED. A COPY OF THIS ARTICLE CAN BE ACCESSED AT WWW.INTERSCIENCE.WILEY.COM.

Description of Event or Problem · 1

LITERATURE: LAI SC, JUNG SM, GRATTAN-SMITH P, ET AL. NEURONAL INTRANUCLEAR INCLUSION DISEASE: TWO CASES OF DOPA-RESPONSIVE JUVENILE PARKINSONISM WITH DRUG-INDUCED DYSKINESIA. MOV DISORD. JUL 15 2010;25(9):1274-1279. SUMMARY: THIS ARTICLE DESCRIBED TWO CHILDREN WITH NEURONAL INTRANUCLEAR INCLUSION DISEASE (NIID) WHO PRESENTED WITH DOPA-RESPONSIVE JUVENILE PARKINSONISM, AND WHO HAD INITIAL GOOD LEVODOPA RESPONSE THAT WAS COMPLICATED BY DISABLING DOPA-INDUCED DYSKINESIA. BOTH PATIENTS DIED WITHIN 10 YEARS OF SYMPTOM ONSET. THE ARTICLE DISCUSSED DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS OF CLINICAL SYMPTOMS AND NEUROPATHOLOGICAL FINDS. EVENT: ONE FEMALE WHO UNDERWENT SUBTHALAMIC NUCLEUS DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION (DBS) EXPERIENCED A RETURN OF SYMPTOMS 6 MONTHS POST SURGERY AFTER INITIAL IMPROVEMENT OF TREMOR AND BRADYKINESIA, AND DEPRESSION AND LABILE EMOTION ONE YEAR AFTER SURGERY. SUBSEQUENTLY, THE PATIENT EXPERIENCED RECURRENT INFECTIONS AND DIED DUE TO ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA APPROXIMATELY TWO YEARS AFTER SURGERY. THE AUTHORS INDICATE THAT THE PATIENT'S WIDESPREAD PATHOLOGY PROBABLY ACCOUNTED FOR THE LACK OF SUSTAINED RESPONSE TO DBS. THE PATIENT'S MOTOR SYMPTOMS PRIOR TO SURGERY HAD PROGRESSED RAPIDLY AND HER COGNITIVE FUNCTION HAD DECLINED. THE PATIENT HAD DEMONSTRATED SEVERE GAIT ATAXIA, DYSARTHRIA, DYSPHAGIA, SACCADIC PURSUIT AND NYSTAGMUS, BLEPHAROSPASM AND FOCAL DYSTONIA IN DISTAL LIMBS.

Devices

Seq Brand Generic Product Code Manufacturer Model Lot UDI-DI
1 UNKNOWN DEEP BRAIN STIMULATOR MHY MEDTRONIC NEUROMODULATION UNK NA

Patients

Seq Age Sex Outcome Treatment
1 18 YR Other IMPLANTED:| LEAD: MODEL LEADN, LOT# UNK| EXTENSION: MODEL UNK, LOT# UNK| EXPLANTED:| IMPLANTED:| IMPLANTED:| EXPLANTED:| IMPLANTED:| EXPLANTED:| EXTENSION: MODEL UNK, LOT# UNK| EXPLANTED:| LEAD: MODEL UNK, LOT# UNK