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Increasing off-time improves sleep-disordered breathing induced by vagal nerve stimulation Volume 14, numéro 4, December 2012

Auteurs
NJ Neuroscience Institute at JFK Medical Center/Seton Hall University, Edison, NJ, Ochsner Health System, New Orleans, LA, USA, contributed equally to the manuscript and should both be considered as first authors.

Vagal nerve stimulation (VNS) has been reported to adversely impact breathing in sleep. While continuous positive airway pressure is often employed to treat these patients, little data exist on the effects of adjusting various settings on VNS-induced sleep-disordered breathing. We describe a patient in whom increasing off-time caused resolution of VNS-induced arterial oxygen desaturations in sleep, which we believe is a novel observation.