Rates and Predictors of Seizure Freedom With Vagus Nerve Stimulation for Intractable Epilepsy
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Rates and Predictors of Seizure Freedom With Vagus Nerve Stimulation for Intractable Epilepsy
BACKGROUND Neuromodulation-based treatments have become increasingly important in epilepsy treatment. Most patients with epilepsy treated with neuromodulation do not achieve complete seizure freedom, and, therefore, previous studies of vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) therapy have focused instead on reduction of seizure frequency as a measure of treatment response. OBJECTIVE To elucidate rates a...
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عنوان ژورنال: Neurosurgery
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0148-396X,1524-4040
DOI: 10.1227/neu.0000000000001165