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Does vagus nerve stimulation reduce cardiac electrical instability assessed by quantitative T-wave alternans in patients with drug-resistant epilepsy?
Does vagus nerve stimulation reduce cardiac electrical instability assessed by quantitative T-wave alternans in patients with drug-resistant epilepsy?
Vagus nerve stimulation may serve as a novel approach to reducing cardiac electrical instability in patients with drug-resistant epilepsy.
Should not yet change VNS use in epilepsy; hypothesis-generating for cardiac instability reduction and needs prospective trials.
These findings suggest significant interictal cardiac electrical instability in this population of patients with drug-resistant epilepsy and suggest that VNS may be a novel approach to reducing risk.
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