Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology (Jan 2021)

Pallidal deep brain stimulation for KMT2B related dystonia in an Indian patient

  • Roopa Rajan,
  • Kanwaljeet Garg,
  • Arti Saini,
  • Mukesh Kumar,
  • B K Binukumar,
  • Vinod Scaria,
  • Rajeev Aggarwal,
  • Anu Gupta,
  • V Y Vishnu,
  • Ajay Garg,
  • Mamta Bhushan Singh,
  • Rohit Bhatia,
  • Achal K Srivastava,
  • M V Padma Srivastava,
  • Manmohan Singh

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4103/aian.AIAN_1316_20
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 24, no. 4
pp. 586 – 588

Abstract

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Outcomes of pallidal stimulation in KMT2B dystonia have been infrequently reported prospectively. We report the six-month outcomes of bilateral GPi DBS in an Asian Indian patient with early-onset generalized dystonia associated with a novel heterozygous variant in the KMT2B gene.

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