Potencial evocado somotossensorial por estimulação do nervo mediano nas lesões Vasculares cerebrais hemisfericas : estudos dos potenciais de media latencia em relação a lesões cerebrais documentadas por ressonancia magnetica do cranio e ao potencial N20

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

1998

RESUMO

Middle latency somatosensory evoked potentials were recorded by electrical stimulation of the median nerve at the wrist, in 43 patients with hemispheric cerebrovascular lesions. Forty two patients were examined within the third and fourth weeks, and in one case, in the fourth month afier a stroke. Ali the lesions were documented by Magnetic Resonance Imaging. In three patients the neuro imaging revealed two lesions per patient, one in each cerebral hemisphere. Thus a total of 46 lesions were analysed. The results were compqred to a control group with the same average age, sex and height. This study was divided into two stages. 111 the first part of this work we analysed the alterations ofthe N30, P45, N60 potentials in case of cerebrallesions, which were divided into six groups: thalamusl internal capsule; internal capsule; thalamusl interna.l, capsulel basal ganglia; internal capsulel basal ganglia; cortexl basal ganglia and cortex. The most frequently finding was the absence of the three potentials in ali groups but the internal capsule, followed by an increase in latency. On the other hand, in most cases, when early N20 potential was absent, the other tree potentials were also absent. This study suggests that N20 and the middle latency potentials are of cortical origin, since the absence of the potentials was found from the thalamus up to the cortex. In the second part of this work a statistical correlation was studied between the N20 and the middle latency potentials. The results suggests that each potential has its own generator within the cortex and receives a significant influence from the generator of the N20 through projections of this generator via corticocortical connections. We also observed alterations in the middle pqtentials, and preserved N20, in only two cases in thalamic lesions outside the ventro-postero-Iateral nucleus; this may imply that other thalamic nucleus can have some influence on the generators of the middle latency potentials

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lesão cerebral ressonancia magnetica

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