Ventilatory response to CO2 in patients with epilepsy

RK Sainju, DN Dragon, HB Winnike, MB Nashelsky…�- …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Severe periictal respiratory depression is thought to be linked to risk of sudden
unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) but its determinants are largely unknown�…

Hypercapnic ventilatory response in epilepsy patients treated with VNS: A case‐control study

RK Sainju, DN Dragon, HB Winnike, P Ten Eyck…�- …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Objective Central CO2 chemoreception (CCR), a major chemical drive for
breathing, can be quantified with a CO2 re‐breathing test to measure the hypercapnic�…

[HTML][HTML] Use of fluoxetine to augment the inter-ictal hypercapnic ventilatory response in patients with epilepsy: a pilot study

RK Sainju, DN Dragon, HB Winnike, P Ten Eyck…�- Neurology�…, 2022 - journals.lww.com
Background: Severe peri-ictal respiratory dysfunction is a potential biomarker for high
SUDEP risk and correlates with an attenuated hypercapnic ventilatory response (HCVR)�…

Interictal respiratory variability predicts severity of hypoxemia after generalized convulsive seizures

RK Sainju, DN Dragon, HB Winnike, L Vilella, X Li…�- …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Severe respiratory dysfunction induced by generalized convulsive seizures (GCS)
is now thought to be a common mechanism for sudden unexpected death in epilepsy�…

[CITATION][C] Hypercapnic ventilatory response in epilepsy patients treated with VNS: A case-control study (vol 62, pg e140, 2021)

RK Sainju, DN Dragon, HB Winnike…�- …, 2022 - …�ST, HOBOKEN 07030-5774, NJ USA