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Case Reports
. 2001 Apr;34(4):190-2.
doi: 10.1159/000056018.

Vagal nerve stimulation for status epilepticus

K R Winston  1 , P Levisohn, B R Miller, J Freeman
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Case Reports

Vagal nerve stimulation for status epilepticus

K R Winston et al. Pediatr Neurosurg. 2001 Apr.

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.

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