Freezing of Gait as a Complication of Pallidal Deep Brain Stimulation in DYT- KMT2B Patients with Evidence of Striatonigral Degeneration

Mov Disord Clin Pract. 2022 Aug 9;9(7):992-996. doi: 10.1002/mdc3.13519. eCollection 2022 Oct.

Laura Cif¹, Diane Demailly¹, Xavier Vasques^{2

3}, Delphine de Verbizier⁴, Philippe Coubes¹, Kathleen Gorman^{5

6}, Manju A Kurian^{5

6}

¹ Département de Neurochirurgie, Unité des Pathologies Cérébrales Résistantes, Unité de Recherche sur les Comportements et Mouvements Anormaux Hôpital Gui de Chauliac, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Montpellier Montpellier France.
² Laboratoire de Recherche en Neurosciences Cliniques Montpellier France.
³ IBM Technology Bois-Colombes France.
⁴ Département de Médecine Nucléaire Hôpital Gui de Chauliac, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Montpellier Montpellier France.
⁵ Developmental Neurosciences UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, Zayed Centre for Research into Rare Disease in Children London United Kingdom.
⁶ Department of Neurology Great Ormond Street Hospital London United Kingdom.

No abstract available

Keywords: DaTscan; KMT2B; deep brain stimulation; freezing of gait.