Implantable vagus nerve stimulation for the treatment of disorders of consciousness with epilepsy: a retrospective propensity score-matched clinical study
Jinyi Zuo, Kaiqiang Ma, Zizhang Cheng, Shu Wang, Xiongfei Wang, Weijin Sun, Junhong Pan, Xintao Peng, Wenlong Su, Haoran Zhang, Jian Zhou, Guoming Luan, Yuguang Guan · 2026
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Jinyi Zuo and co-authors studied, in a 2026 paper, whether an implanted vagus nerve stimulator helps patients who live with both a disorder of consciousness and epilepsy. Few therapies move such patients toward awareness. The device is standard for epilepsy but untested for this combined group.
Ninety patients either received the implant or were managed without it. Matching balanced the two arms at 23 patients each for the main comparison. After one year, about 35 percent of implanted patients had gained a meaningful step on a coma recovery scale, against 4 percent without. Gains in the implant group pulled ahead from month three onward. The authors present the result as a real signal for a group with almost no options, while noting the data are retrospective.
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| CREATOR | Jinyi Zuo, Kaiqiang Ma, Zizhang Cheng, Shu Wang, Xiongfei Wang, Weijin Sun, Junhong Pan, Xintao Peng, Wenlong Su, Haoran Zhang, Jian Zhou, Guoming Luan, Yuguang Guan |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 46 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |