Is there any reliable study about long-term outcomes in young patients (25-35aa) with essential tremor treated with unilateral thalamic lesions or deep brain stimulation? My question is not only about long term tremor and quality of life rating scales but especially about long term cognitive impairment if any.
Thanks for your answer but the population of that study has an average of 72.9 years (range, 70–75 years) and I'm actually very interested in young patients' outcomes.
I do not think is that common to have a 25-35 years ET patients undergoing functional surgery for many reasons, tremor usually become disabling and cannot be treated with meds in older patients. Shaking patients requiring surgery in that age may not have ET. Anyway, to my knolewdge VIM DBS (expecially unilateral) is quite safe as for cognition, that's why it can be done also in elderly
I have a question: does benign essential tremor which began at a young age of 25 years have the potential to go on to Parkinson's disease later in life?
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