Yaqub BA, Kabiraj MM, Shamena A, al-Bunyan M, Daif A, Tahan A. Diagnostic role of brain-stem auditory evoked potentials in neurobrucellosis.
ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY AND CLINICAL NEUROPHYSIOLOGY 1992;
84:549-52. [PMID:
1280201 DOI:
10.1016/0168-5597(92)90044-c]
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Abstract
Evoked potential audiometry and brain-stem auditory evoked potentials were evaluated in 15 patients with systemic brucellosis in whom brucella meningitis was suspected clinically. In 8 patients cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) was abnormal with high brucella titre, and evoked potentials were abnormal in all of them. In 7 patients the CSF was normal and evoked potentials were also normal. Brain-stem auditory evoked potential abnormalities were categorised into 4 types: (1) abnormal wave I, (2) abnormal wave V, both irreversible, (3) prolonged I-III interpeak latencies, and (4) prolonged I-V interpeak latencies, both reversible. These findings are of important diagnostic value and correlate well with the clinical features, aetiopathogenesis and final outcome.
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