Thread: Husband had DBS surgery June 2009...need help
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Old 04-10-2011, 11:15 AM
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It looks like close to one in ten pacemakers develop serious problems, no matter how good the team. That's pretty sloppy hardware. Imagine if 10% of PCs failed.

Post-operative complications:

asymptomatic intracranial bleed (10% of procedures)
symptomatic intracranial bleed (2%)
seizures (3%)
headache (25%)
infection (6%)

Device-related complications:

lead replacements (9%)
lead repositionings (8%)
extension wire replacements (6%)
implantable pulse generator replacements (17%), approximately half of which were due to malfunction


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