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What percentage of epilepsy patients are good candidates for vagus nerve stimulation (vns) therapy?
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VNS candidates: must be at least 12 years old (in the US) and have seizures that are known to respond to VNS ( eg. focal seizures, secondarily generalized seizures ) and have failed to achieve adequate seizure control with at least two anticonvulsants (with documented therapeutic levels) or a combination of medications. Typically they are not good epilepsy surgery candidates. In my practice: about 1/3 patients.
Answered 11/27/2017
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