Sign and magnitude scaling properties of heart rate fluctuations following vagus nerve stimulation in a patient with drug-resistant epilepsy
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[Vagus nerve stimulation in patients with drug-resistant epilepsy].
OBJECTIVE To describe the mechanism and first results of vagus nerve stimulation at the Medisch Spectrum Twenty, the Netherlands, for the treatment of patients with drug-resistant epilepsy. DESIGN Descriptive retrospective. METHOD Fifteen patients, 8 male and 7 female, aged 18-45 years with drug-resistant epilepsy, who were not eligible for surgical resection of an epileptic focus, received...
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عنوان ژورنال: Epilepsy & Behavior Case Reports
سال: 2018
ISSN: 2213-3232
DOI: 10.1016/j.ebcr.2018.05.003