Vagal nerve stimulation for status epilepticus.
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.
Winston
K R
KR
Department of Neurosurgery, The University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and The Children's Hospital, Denver, Colo., USA.
Levisohn
P
P
Miller
B R
BR
Freeman
J
J
D000293:Adolescent; D003337:Corpus Callosum / Q000601:surgery; D004558:Electric Stimulation / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D007430:Intraoperative Care; D008297:Male; D011184:Postoperative Period; D013226:Status Epilepticus / Q000601:surgery / Q000628:therapy*; D014630:Vagus Nerve / Q000502:physiology*