Epileptic Disorders
MENUVagus nerve stimulation in children with drug-resistant epilepsy: age at implantation and shorter duration of epilepsy as predictors of better efficacy? Volume 17, numéro 3, September 2015
Auteurs
Aim
1 Paediatric Neurology
2 Neurosurgery, University Hospitals KULeuven, Leuven
3 Neurology, University Hospital Antwerp, Belgium
* Correspondence: Lieven Lagae
Department of Development and Regeneration,
Section Paediatric Neurology,
University Hospitals KULeuven,
Herestraat 49,
3000 Leuven, Belgium
- Mots-clés : VNS, vagus nerve stimulation, drug-resistant epilepsy, children
- DOI : 10.1684/epd.2015.0768
- Page(s) : 308-14
- Année de parution : 2015
To study the efficacy of vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) therapy in a highly drug-resistant childhood epilepsy patient group and to investigate the effect of age at implantation on efficacy.