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Vagal nerve stimulation for status epilepticus
K R Winston1, P Levisohn, B R Miller
1Department of Neurosurgery, The University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and The Children's Hospital, Denver, Colo., USA.
Pediatric Neurosurgery
|May 19, 2001
Abstract:
Refractory generalized convulsive status epilepticus in a 13-year-old boy was halted by left vagal nerve stimulation. Over the next 1.5 years, seizures have continued at a rate and severity which is significantly better than it had been in the year before insertion of the stimulator.