Chronic cyclic vagus nerve stimulation has beneficial electrophysiological effects on healthy hearts in the absence of autonomic imbalance
Lee SW, Li Q, Libbus I, Xie X, KenKnight BH, Garry MG, Tolkacheva EG
Physiological Reports · 2016
Key finding
VNS did not induce any significant changes to ventricular ejection fraction (EF) and spatial dispersion of APD, thus indicating that VNS did not negatively affect cardiac function.
- Condition
- Heart Failure
- Stimulation
- iVNS
- Evidence tier
- Randomised Controlled Trial
- Participants
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Cite this study
Lee, S. W., Li, Q., Libbus, I., Xie, X., KenKnight, B. H., Garry, M. G., & Tolkacheva, E. G. (2016). Chronic cyclic vagus nerve stimulation has beneficial electrophysiological effects on healthy hearts in the absence of autonomic imbalance. Physiological Reports, 4(9). https://doi.org/10.14814/phy2.12786
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