The phrenic nerve controls the diaphragm, the dome-shaped muscle that is primarily responsible for breathing. Contraction of the diaphragm expands the lungs and draws air into them. The phrenic ...

These tumors derive from myelinating Schwann cells of the vestibular division of the vestibulocochlear (eighth cranial) nerve. The term “vestibular schwannoma” is preferred over the historical ...

Surgical excision showed that the mass was a schwannoma. Schwannomas are histologically benign tumors seen along the course of peripheral nerves, nerve roots, and cranial nerves [especially cranial ...

In 1937, Dr Huang stimulated the phrenic nerve of the rabbit with electricity to induce respiration. Later Sarnoff conducted the same experiment on a cat, a rabbit, a dog and a monkey. In 1949 ...

ZOLL Announces Five-Year Study Confirming Safety, Efficacy and Beneficial Effects of Long-Term Transvenous Phrenic Nerve Stimulation (the remedē System) ...

ORLANDO, FL — An implantable device that controls breathing muscles during sleep by electrical phrenic-nerve stimulation significantly cut the prevalence of sleep-apnea episodes, primarily by ...

In a highly complex procedure on May 11 th at Somerset Medical Center in Somerville, New Jersey, Dr. Kaufman performed a microsurgical decompression of the phrenic nerve to restore function to Ms ...

Evidence-based recommendations on phrenic nerve pacing for ventilator-dependent high cervical spinal cord injury. This involves stimulating the phrenic nerve to make the diaphragm contract, helping ...