Is long term vagal stimulation feasible, safe, and effective in patients with advanced heart failure?
Long-term vagal stimulation represents a feasible and safe novel approach for advanced heart failure, with promising preliminary efficacy that warrants larger multicenter trials.
This novel approach to the treatment of patients with HF is feasible, and appears safe and tolerable. The preliminary efficacy results appear promising. These findings suggest the opportunity to proceed with a larger multicentre study.
Schwartz et al. (2008) studied this question.