Complex sleep-disordered breathing after vagus nerve stimulation: broadening the spectrum of adverse events of special interest
Oliveira Santos M, Bentes C, Teodoro T, Moreira S, Marques M, Tomé D, Peralta AR
Epileptic Disorders · 2020
Key finding
Two epilepsy patients developed complex VNS-related sleep-disordered breathing (obstructive and central apnoea, stridor, catathrenia) coincident with stimulation-on time, reversed by VNS parameter adjustment.
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- Condition
- Epilepsy
- Stimulation
- iVNS
- Evidence tier
- Case Report / Series
- Participants
- 2
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Oliveira Santos, M., Bentes, C., Teodoro, T., Moreira, S., Marques, M., Tomé, D., & Peralta, A. R. (2020). Complex sleep-disordered breathing after vagus nerve stimulation: broadening the spectrum of adverse events of special interest. Epileptic Disorders, 22(6), 790-796. https://doi.org/10.1684/epd.2020.1223
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