A register-based 13-year to 43-year follow-up of 70 patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder treated with capsulotomy.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Little is known about the long-term medical status of patients with severe obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) undergoing capsulotomy, a neurosurgical last-resort treatment. The present study used national registers to identify all operated patients with OCD in Sweden and evaluated their long-term medical status, including mortality, hospital admissions and psychotropic medication after capsulotomy for OCD.

Design

Register-based long-term follow-up cohort study.

Participants

We used the procedural and diagnostic codes in the Swedish National Patient Register to define the study population between 1970 and March 2013. Verification by manual review of medical records of the indication for surgery in those identified by the register yielded the final study coh

SUBMITTER: Ruck C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5777457 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature