Vagus nerve stimulation improves severely impaired heart rate variability in a patient with Lennox-Gastaut-Syndrome

Seizure

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 469-472

  Koenig, Stephan A ^a   Longin, Elke ^a   Bell, Nellie ^a   Reinhard, Julia ^a   Gerstner, Thorsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Autonomic nervous system; Epilepsy; Heart rate variability; Lennox Gastaut Syndrome; Vagus nerve

Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE; FLUDROCORTISONE; OXCARBAZEPINE; PHENOBARBITAL;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; GENETIC PROCEDURES; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HYPONATREMIA; LENNOX GASTAUT SYNDROME; MYOCLONUS SEIZURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; EPILEPSIES, MYOCLONIC; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HEART RATE; HUMANS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 44749093289     PISSN: 10591311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seizure.2007.11.004     Document Type: Article

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