ArticleEpilepsy & behavior case reports2018
New onset syncopal events following vagus nerve stimulator implantation might be key to preventing vagus nerve stimulation-induced symptomatic bradycardia - A case report and review.
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- Anesthetic Management of Patients for Vagal Nerve Stimulator Placement: A Narrative Review.Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment · 2026Review
- Late-onset asystole associated with vagal nerve stimulation.Epilepsia open · 2025Review
- Complete Heart Block and Ventricular Asystole Caused by Vagus Nerve Stimulation Therapy.Cureus · 2024Article
- Non-pharmacological Interventions for Intractable Epilepsy.Saudi pharmaceutical journal : SPJ : the official publication of the Saudi Pharmaceutical Society · 2020Review
- Bradyarrhythmia secondary to vagus nerve stimulator 7 years after placement.BMJ case reports · 2020Article
- Sex Differences in Vagus Nerve Stimulation Effects on Rat Cardiovascular and Immune Systems.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2020Article
- Comparison and Selection of Current Implantable Anti-Epileptic Devices.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2019Review
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Abstract
purposeTo identify risk factors for VNS-associated arrhythmia.
methodsA literature review identified 14 papers with 21 patients. We compared patients with VNS associated arrhythmia (arrhythmia group, n = 22) and patients without VNS associated arrhythmia (control group of our VNS implanted patients, n = 29).
resultsNew onset syncopal events following VNS placement were seen in the arrhythmia group (p < 0.001).
conclusionEven though arrhythmia could be symptomatic, most cases associated with syncope were treated as new-onset epileptic seizures with adjustment of anti-seizure drugs. To detect cardiac asystole during VNS treatment, clinicians should be alert to the possibility of new onset syncopal events that differ from habitual seizures.
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