Brown adipose tissue after vagus nerve stimulation - Brown adipose tissue after vagus nerve stimulation

niversiteit Maastricht0 个研究点目标入组 20 人开始时间: 待定最近更新: 2024年5月6日

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•Subjects treated with Vagus Nerve Stimulation (VNS) for epilepsy, aged 18-65 years, with a Body Mass Index (BMI) <= 28 kg/m2. Patients need to have optimally adjusted, stable VNS as judged by the treating neurologist.

•Body Mass Index > 28 kg/m2
•Daily epileptic insults.
•Subjects that need or needed *Rapid Cycling* VNS to control their frequency of epileptic insults.
•Psychological unstable subjects (as judged by the treating neurologist).
•subjects with mental retardation (as judged by the treating neurologist).
•subjects with severe behaviour disorders (as judged by the treating neurologist).
•Pregnant subjects.
•Subjects that previously underwent high dose radiation for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes (radiotherapy, high frequency CT-scans).
•The use of the following medication is an exclusion criterium;
•o ß-blockers,
•o Ketogenic diet
•Subjects that recieved high doses of ionising radiation (x-ray or gamma radiation) in their medical history will be excluded.

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