Treatment of vagus nerve stimulator-induced sleep-disordered breathing: A case series
Oh DM, Johnson J, Shah B, Bhat S, Nuoman R, Ming X
Epilepsy & Behavior Reports · 2019
Key finding
All four epilepsy patients had VNS-induced sleep-disordered breathing that decreased dose-dependently with reduced VNS settings and was unresponsive to positive airway pressure alone.
- Condition
- Respiratory
- Stimulation
- iVNS
- Evidence tier
- Case Report / Series
- Participants
- 4
Cite this study
Oh, D. M., Johnson, J., Shah, B., Bhat, S., Nuoman, R., & Ming, X. (2019). Treatment of vagus nerve stimulator-induced sleep-disordered breathing: A case series. Epilepsy & Behavior Reports, 12, 100325. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ebr.2019.100325
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