Effectiveness of vagus nerve stimulation in epilepsy patients: a 12-year observation. Review uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • A retrospective review of the safety, tolerability, and efficacy of vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) in 48 patients with intractable partial epilepsy was performed. Side effects were few and mild to moderate. Mean seizure frequency decreased by 26% after 1 year, 30% after 5 years, and 52% after 12 years with VNS treatment.

publication date

  • September 28, 2004

Research

keywords

  • Electric Stimulation Therapy
  • Epilepsies, Partial
  • Vagus Nerve

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 4644265042

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1212/01.wnl.0000138499.87068.c0

PubMed ID

  • 15452317

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 63

issue

  • 6