Treatment of refractory epilepsy in adult patients with right-sided vagus nerve stimulation

Epilepsy Research

Volumn 90, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 1-7

  Navas, Marta ^a   Navarrete, Eduardo García ^a   Pascual, José M ^a   Carrasco, Rodrigo ^a   Núñez, José A ^a   Shakur, Sophia F ^b   Pastor, Jesús ^a   Sola, Rafael G ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE LA PRINCESA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Adults; Cardiac effects; Epilepsy; Intractable seizures; Right sided; Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS)

Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE; CLONAZEPAM; ETIRACETAM; LAMOTRIGINE; OLANZAPINE; OXCARBAZEPINE; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; TIAGABINE; TOPIRAMATE; VALPROIC ACID; VIGABATRIN; ZONISAMIDE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; BRAIN SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CRANIOTOMY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FALLING; FAMILY HISTORY; HEADACHE; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SKIN INFECTION; SPEECH DISORDER; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION; ELECTRODE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; PHYSIOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ELECTRODES; EPILEPSY; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

EID: 77953543711     PISSN: 09201211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2010.04.007     Document Type: Review

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