Cardiac autonomic modulation in drug-resistant epilepsy patients after vagus nerve stimulation therapy.
CONCLUSIONS: Our results indicate that VNS appears not to alter the cardiac autonomic function after three months of neurostimulation. HRV analysis is a useful tool for evaluating cardiac autonomic modulation in epilepsy patients during VNS therapy.
CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS: Patients with decreased HRV should be periodically monitored. Cardiac changes in patients with epilepsy are important because of the additional risk of arrhythmias mediated through the autonomic dysfunction.
PMID: 32557527 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Neurologia i Neurochirurgia Polska - Category: Neurology Authors: Constantinescu V, Matei D, Constantinescu I, Cuciureanu DI Tags: Neurol Neurochir Pol Source Type: research
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