Effect of chronic vagal nerve stimulation on interictal epileptiform discharges.

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Authors	KUBA Robert NESVADBA David BRÁZDIL Milan OŠLEJŠKOVÁ Hana RYZÍ Michal REKTOR Ivan
Year of publication	2010
Type	Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source	Seizure
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Medicine
Citation
Field	Neurology, neurosurgery, neurosciences
Keywords	Vagal nerve stimulation; Electroencephalography; Epilepsy; Seizure
Description	We evaluated the effect of vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) on interictal epileptiform discharges (IEDs) in 32 epileptic patients (18 females; 14 males) with an average age of 42.2 +/- 11.4 years, all of whom had been suffering from epilepsy for an average of 29.2 +/- 14.5 years. All of the patients had received VNS for 5 years.
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