title: [Long-term effects of intracerebral implantation of adrenal medulla in the treatment of parkinsonism].
abstract: 24 patients with parkinsonism received intracerebral autotransplantation of adrenal. Follow-up for 1-4 years showed that the long-term effectiveness was 70.8%, and the substantial effectiveness 41.7%. The patients with no improvement or deterioration after some improvement comprised 20.8%. The operative mortality rate was 8.3%. Possible factors influencing the effectiveness were analysed, and how to improve the survival rate of the implanted chromaffin cells was also discussed.
authors.affiliation: Beijing Xuanwu Hospital.
authors.forename: W C
authors.initials: WC
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D000313:Adrenal Medulla / Q000637:transplantation*; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001921:Brain / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006085:Graft Survival; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010300:Parkinson Disease / Q000601:surgery*; D013497:Sural Nerve / Q000637:transplantation; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous