Vagus nerve stimulation: Outcome and predictors of seizure freedom in long-term follow-up

Seizure

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 264-268

  Ghaemi, Kazem ^a,b   Elsharkawy, Alaa Eldin ^b   Schulz, Reinhard ^b   Hoppe, Matthias ^b   Polster, Tilman ^b   Pannek, Heinz ^b   Ebner, Alois ^b  

^a BIRJAND UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b EPILEPSY CENTER BETHEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Long term outcome; VNS

Indexed keywords

ETIRACETAM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN MALFORMATION; CHILD; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DIZZINESS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOARSENESS; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEIZURE; SEIZURE THRESHOLD; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTICONVULSANTS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DRUG RESISTANCE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LONG-TERM CARE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEIZURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VAGUS NERVE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952557783     PISSN: 10591311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seizure.2010.03.002     Document Type: Article

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