Neurologia medico-chirurgica
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Neurol. Med. Chir. (Tokyo) · Jul 1999
Review Randomized Controlled Trial Clinical TrialExperience with vagus nerve stimulation for intractable epilepsy: some questions and answers.
Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) is gaining increasing popularity and credibility as a treatment option for patients with intractable epilepsy. VNS is a relatively recent innovation, however, and like many other incipient developments, it has engendered a number of unresolved controversies and perplexities. ⋯ Although many enigmas persist, VNS has proven to be a safe, feasible, and potentially effective method of reducing seizures in select patient populations. It offers several advantages over extant treatments and, as a result, holds much promise for future therapy of medically refractory epilepsy.