Vagus nerve stimulation improves severely impaired heart rate variability in a patient with Lennox-Gastaut-Syndrome.

Children's Hospital, University of Mannheim, Theodor-Kutzer-Ufer, 68167 Mannheim, Germany.

Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) is a new therapeutic option for refractory epilepsy. We report a patient with Lennox-Gastaut-Syndrome (LGS) and a severe impairment of heart rate variability (HRV), we could demonstrate in our patient that HRV was improved by VNS.

PMID: 18096413 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]