TY - JOUR
T1 - Cardiorespiratory effects induced by vagus nerve stimulation in epileptic children
AU - Pruvost, Mickael
AU - Zaaimi, Boubker
AU - Grebe, Reinhard
AU - Wallois, Fabrice
AU - Berquin, Patrick
AU - Perlitz, Volker
PY - 2006/4/1
Y1 - 2006/4/1
N2 - Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) is used in pharmaco-resistant epilepsy to decrease the number of seizures. Although it is well known that VNS affects respiration, there are only a few reports concerning an effect of VNS on heart rate or heart rate variability (HRV). We investigated the relationship between respiratory frequency and the high frequency (HF) domain of the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) of the RR interval function during night sleep recordings of ten subjects treated with VNS. Our results show that VNS shifts the frequency of maximal power spectrum density (PSD) in the HF-band, decreases the related PSD and induces a partial cardiorespiratory decoupling.
AB - Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) is used in pharmaco-resistant epilepsy to decrease the number of seizures. Although it is well known that VNS affects respiration, there are only a few reports concerning an effect of VNS on heart rate or heart rate variability (HRV). We investigated the relationship between respiratory frequency and the high frequency (HF) domain of the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) of the RR interval function during night sleep recordings of ten subjects treated with VNS. Our results show that VNS shifts the frequency of maximal power spectrum density (PSD) in the HF-band, decreases the related PSD and induces a partial cardiorespiratory decoupling.
KW - Cardiorespiratory coupling
KW - HRV
KW - Vagus nerve stimulation
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UR - https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11517-006-0041-5
U2 - 10.1007/s11517-006-0041-5
DO - 10.1007/s11517-006-0041-5
M3 - Article
C2 - 16937175
AN - SCOPUS:33745449408
SN - 0140-0118
VL - 44
SP - 338
EP - 347
JO - Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing
JF - Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing
IS - 4
ER -