Long-term Outcome of Deep Brain Stimulation in Intralaminar Thalamus for Refractory Tourette Syndrome: A Case Report

Made Agus Mahendra Inggas; Dewa Ayu Ina Dianata; Rocksy F. V. Situmeang; Eka J. Wahjoepramono; Takanobu Kaido

doi:10.3889/oamjms.2022.8250

Authors

Made Agus Mahendra Inggas Department of Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Pelita Harapan, Tangerang, Indonesia https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3218-3150
Dewa Ayu Ina Dianata Department of General Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Brawijaya University, Malang, Indonesia https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3218-3150
Rocksy F. V. Situmeang Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Pelita Harapan, Tangerang, Indonesia
Eka J. Wahjoepramono Department of Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Pelita Harapan, Tangerang, Indonesia
Takanobu Kaido Department of Health and Nutrition, Osaka Shoin Women’s University, Higashiosaka, Japan

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3889/oamjms.2022.8250

Keywords:

Tourette syndrome, Deep brain stimulation, Thalamus, Yale global tic severity scale

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Tourette syndrome (TS) is a neurobehavioral disease that has onset at an early age around 5–7 years old. This disease affects 0.3–0.8% of young age population. With criteria diagnosis at least one vocal and two motor tics beginning before 18 years old. The symptoms of tics remain unusual from a social point of view, thus making it difficult for patients to evolve their professional life and education level. We present a case report of a young male patient with refractory TS with a Yale Global Tic Severity Scale (YGTSS) score of 88 out of 100; he has experienced remarkable improvement after undergoing a deep brain stimulation (DBS) procedure.

CASE REPORT: A 23-year-old male came to our neurosurgery outpatient clinic who had had a history of TS since 8 years ago. He had facial and jumping-type tics. Lately, his jumping movements cannot be controlled, with increasing frequency and intensity. The maximum tic-free interval is only 30 min. On 1st-time evaluation in the neurosurgery outpatient clinic, he scored 88 out 0f 100 on the YGTSS even after medication treatment, repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation, and behavioral therapies. The DBS procedure was carried out in November 2018 with targets on the bilateral intralaminar nuclei of thalamus (centromedian nucleus). The result is convincing, with decrease of YGTSS score until 14 after 3 years evaluation postsurgery.

CONCLUSION: After performing DBS targeting the bilateral thalamus (central thalamus nucleus), the severity of tic was dramatically reduced. The result is pleasing to the patient as they can resume activity in public and return to college. Case reports regarding the treatment of refractory TS with DBS are still rare in Indonesia. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first such report with long-term follow-up in South East Asia.

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