Comprehensive long-term outcome of best drug treatment with or without add-on vagus nerve stimulation for epilepsy: A retrospective matched pairs case-control study

Seizure

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 109-115

  Hoppe, Christian ^a   Wagner, Lena ^a   Hoffmann, Judith M ^a   Von Lehe, Marec ^a   Elger, Christian E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Health related quality of life; Mood; Personality; Seizures; Vagus nerve stimulation

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MONOTHERAPY; MOOD; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIMPLE PARTIAL SEIZURE; TREATMENT FAILURE; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANTICONVULSANTS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

EID: 84873408432     PISSN: 10591311     EISSN: 15322688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seizure.2012.11.003     Document Type: Article

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