Cristancho Pilar, Trapp Nicholas T, Siddiqi Shan H, Dixon David, Miller J Philip, Lenze Eric J
University of Iowa Hospital and Clinics, Iowa City, IA.
Division of Biostatistics, School of Medicine, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO.
J ECT. 2019 Mar;35(1):3-5. doi: 10.1097/YCT.0000000000000500.
Clinical trials using left-sided repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) report remission rates of 14% to 32.6%. A large percentage of patients would not achieve remission with standard rTMS treatment. The question of what clinicians should do when a patient is not responding to standard high-frequency (HF) left-sided rTMS remains unanswered. This prospective case series examines whether crossover to bilateral stimulation enhances antidepressant outcomes in patients not responding to unilateral rTMS. Patients in a major depressive episode received an rTMS clinical protocol of 4 to 6 weeks' duration. Stimulation began with HF rTMS (10 Hz) over the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (range, 3000-5000 pulses per session). A total of 17 patients without sufficient clinical improvement early in their rTMS course received 1-Hz rTMS (range, 600-1200 pps) over the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (added to the HF left-sided stimulation). Hamilton Depression Rating Scale scores decreased from 13.9 ± 3.9 (mean ± SD) from the start of augmentation to 12.2 ± 5.8 at the end of acute treatment, a 1.7-point change, Cohen d effect size = -0.35, 95% confidence interval, -1.01 to - 0.34, suggesting improvement. Remission rate in this sample was 24% (4/17). This case series indicates that crossover to bilateral stimulation is a feasible and potentially effective strategy when patients are not improving with standard rTMS. A randomized controlled trial comparing crossover versus standard rTMS is needed to determine the efficacy of this paradigm.
使用左侧重复经颅磁刺激(rTMS)的临床试验报告缓解率为14%至32.6%。很大一部分患者采用标准rTMS治疗无法实现缓解。当患者对标准高频(HF)左侧rTMS无反应时,临床医生该怎么做这个问题仍未得到解答。本前瞻性病例系列研究了对于单侧rTMS无反应的患者,交叉采用双侧刺激是否能增强抗抑郁效果。重度抑郁发作的患者接受了为期4至6周的rTMS临床方案。刺激始于左侧背外侧前额叶皮质的高频rTMS(10赫兹)(每次治疗3000 - 5000脉冲)。共有17例在rTMS治疗早期临床改善不足的患者,在右侧背外侧前额叶皮质接受1赫兹rTMS(600 - 1200次/秒)(添加到高频左侧刺激中)。汉密尔顿抑郁量表评分从强化开始时的13.9±3.9(均值±标准差)降至急性治疗结束时的12.2±5.8,变化1.7分,科恩d效应量 = -0.35,95%置信区间为 -1.01至 -0.34,提示有改善。该样本中的缓解率为24%(4/17)。本病例系列表明,当患者采用标准rTMS无改善时,交叉采用双侧刺激是一种可行且可能有效的策略。需要进行一项比较交叉刺激与标准rTMS的随机对照试验来确定该模式的疗效。
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